Is there not a way to change the color of the dock icons in tw 4.0? I can't seem to find it if there is.
Ttrain721 said:
Is there not a way to change the color of the dock icons in tw 4.0? I can't seem to find it if there is.
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Pull the apk. Open it with a file manager. Navigate to res/drawavle-hdpi. Find the icon. Hue it, color it, replace it with whatever you'd like. Push the apk back. (assuming you're rooted).
If you're not, short answer is no. You'd need a launcher that lets you change icons.
With other launchers such as Nova or Apex, you can select a different icon. Just long-press, edit, then click the icon and browse to your new one. I think Nova is far superior to TW launcher anyhow, if that means anything to you.
zx3junglist said:
With other launchers such as Nova or Apex, you can select a different icon. Just long-press, edit, then click the icon and browse to your new one. I think Nova is far superior to TW launcher anyhow, if that means anything to you.
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I'm guessing you have to flash nova?
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barnacles10 said:
Pull the apk. Open it with a file manager. Navigate to res/drawavle-hdpi. Find the icon. Hue it, color it, replace it with whatever you'd like. Push the apk back. (assuming you're rooted).
If you're not, short answer is no. You'd need a launcher that lets you change icons.
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I'm fairly new to all of this. I'm not sure how to mess with the apk files, haven't even read up on it. Yes, I'm rooted, Blazer 4.1.
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Ttrain721 said:
I'm fairly new to all of this. I'm not sure how to mess with the apk files, haven't even read up on it. Yes, I'm rooted, Blazer 4.1.
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Well then your options are either use a different launcher or rip apart the apks.
If you don't have knowledge of adb (which I recommend anyone with a rooted phone should have as it is a great tool to know how to use) and you want to keep the touchwiz launcher you can use an app like es file explorer or root explorer to move them about.
You say youre on blazer 4.1, so for example say you want to change the messaging icon. Open the zip for blazer rom , the one you flashed, and navigate to system/apps through a file explorer like 7zip on your pc
Once you find the apps folder you can scroll through and find the app for the icon you want to change. In this case messaging or Mms.apk.
Drag that apk out to your desktop. Again, open it with 7zip same way you opened the blazer update.zip. Navigate this time to res/drawable-hdpi. Pull the folder drawable hdpi out to your desktop. You now have the drawable folder to work with.
Scroll through the images and find the application icon image. How do you know which one it is? It looks like the one on you're phone for messaging.
Once you find it you can rename any other png to the same file name and drag it into this folder to replace it. You can also edit the image itself in gimp or photoshop and then just save it as a png again.
Once you are done drag the drawable-hdpi folder back into the apk within the res directory. Then put this apk with your change on your sd card.
Open a root explorer. Navigate to your sd card, find the apk, and move it to system/app. Reboot. Done.
Ttrain721 said:
I'm guessing you have to flash nova?
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Nope ... it's available in the marke.. oh, I mean the Play Store
Hmm, on second thought, you can only use Nova or Apex with ICS 4.0. I think your tw 4.0 threw me off. I think you'll have to look at ADW or Go launcher. Also another route would be to flash a theme pack for Blazer. It's been a while, so not sure what's available, but hop over and have a look at the Themes & Apps section.
Great information, barnacles10. Thank you. I will definitely give this a try. I have been getting better at using 7zip lately.. swapping out zimages into flashable kernels and things like that. Do you have any suggestions of a good site to find icon png images online. I guess I can pull the images I want to use from other apk files as well.
DataHawg said:
Great information, barnacles10. Thank you. I will definitely give this a try. I have been getting better at using 7zip lately.. swapping out zimages into flashable kernels and things like that. Do you have any suggestions of a good site to find icon png images online. I guess I can pull the images I want to use from other apk files as well.
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I usually just stick to aosp icons, or if I'm changing anything I'll just modify those.
If you're looking for icon sets I'm sure you can find some in general xda android theming.
Deviant art is always a great place to find quality work as well. This should pull up my search on deviant art with a bunch of icon packs.
http://browse.deviantart.com/customization/icons/?q=android
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Looking to see if anyone could lead me in the direction of a working transparent widget pack, mostly for power control and genie widget. Tried the threads i could find from the nexus dump, but it doesn't work, it "applies" but when i add the widget its still black, even after a reboot.
joe.kerwin said:
Looking to see if anyone could lead me in the direction of a working transparent widget pack, mostly for power control and genie widget. Tried the threads i could find from the nexus dump, but it doesn't work, it "applies" but when i add the widget its still black, even after a reboot.
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That's because they're changing the images in the drawable-hdpi folder, you want to change them in the drawable-mdpi folder.
JAguirre1231 said:
That's because they're changing the images in the drawable-hdpi folder, you want to change them in the drawable-mdpi folder.
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So i have to edit them within the ROM zip file, sign, and flash? I was hoping not to have to go through all that.
joe.kerwin said:
So i have to edit them within the ROM zip file, sign, and flash? I was hoping not to have to go through all that.
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You can also make a metamorph to replace the images.
+1 to metamorph saves A LOT of time, imho.
Well if I thought it was easy to build a metamorph file, I'd have done that. It's just so frustrating to see all these morphs and none of them ever work on cy's roms. They even successfully apply, then you reboot, re-add the widget, and its exactly the same.
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Well if I thought it was easy to build a metamorph file, I'd have done that. It's just so frustrating to see all these morphs and none of them ever work on cy's roms. They even successfully apply, then you reboot, re-add the widget, and its exactly the same.
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They work on Cy's roms... for the Nexus. The Nexus and G1 use different folder for the images they use (which is why you won't see any changes).
joe.kerwin said:
Looking to see if anyone could lead me in the direction of a working transparent widget pack, mostly for power control and genie widget. Tried the threads i could find from the nexus dump, but it doesn't work, it "applies" but when i add the widget its still black, even after a reboot.
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power control widget
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=680154
I'm using msturg29's New Senzation Mod at the moment. I really like the theme and it's running great so far. I'd like to change a couple things on it if I could. I really like the look of the bigger icons in TW over Go Launcher along with the 4 icon dock versus the 5 icon dock. Is it possible to flash or push a 4 icon dock version of TW to this rom? Also, if I want to change the default icon for each app, do I have to change the icon inside of each apk file?
Thanks! I did some searching around without much success, though I did find some stuff on how to change icons in the apk files.
burntsushi said:
I'm using msturg29's New Senzation Mod at the moment. I really like the theme and it's running great so far. I'd like to change a couple things on it if I could. I really like the look of the bigger icons in TW over Go Launcher along with the 4 icon dock versus the 5 icon dock. Is it possible to flash or push a 4 icon dock version of TW to this rom? Also, if I want to change the default icon for each app, do I have to change the icon inside of each apk file?
Thanks! I did some searching around without much success, though I did find some stuff on how to change icons in the apk files.
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As far as the launcher goes, you should be able to just grab a touchwiz launcher.apk from another rom and push it to /system/app. ("Should" being the keyword of course!!) I'm not familiar with that rom but I would think you could just grab the apk out of whatever stock rom it is based off of. ie, EG-30, EG-31, EL-13, etc... WHATEVER YOU DO, just make sure you do a nandroid back up FIRST so if it gets wonky on you, you can just restore back to your current settings.
For the icons, yes, you would have to change the icon in each apk provided you want to use a stock launcher (like touchwiz) and you want the icons in your app drawer to be themed. If you don't care about the app drawer and just want to change the icons on your homescreen(s), then you could just use desktop visualizer or a launcher like Go or ADW. If you are gonna change each individual apk, you'll just need to decompile them with one of the many tools floating around, swap out the icon (usually 72x72 and located in drawable-hdpi), recompile, and resign. Sounds like a lot but it is pretty easy.
I want to use the AOSP MMS app because I like it much better than Samsung's app, but I don't like how the AOSP icon doesn't really fit in with the Samsung theme. On the lockscreen/launcher it looks out of place and misaligned....
If I open up the AOSP .apk in 7Zip and replace the .png with the one from Samsung's .apk will that be the fix? I'm rooted and on a custom rom.
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I want to use the AOSP MMS app because I like it much better than Samsung's app, but I don't like how the AOSP icon doesn't really fit in with the Samsung theme. On the lockscreen/launcher it looks out of place and misaligned....
If I open up the AOSP .apk in 7Zip and replace the .png with the one from Samsung's .apk will that be the fix? I'm rooted and on a custom rom.
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Yeah, replace the mipmap folders for the main icon. Here is mine, but its inverted. I use the touchwiz icon.
shiftr182 said:
Yeah, replace the mipmap folders for the main icon. Here is mine, but its inverted. I use the touchwiz icon.
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O, wow, thanks. Inverted is even better. I'm still going to try this when I get home but I'm going to steal yours lol.
This might seem stupid, but would it be possible to have a rom that allows you to choose to have add some touchwiz interface onto an AOSP rom or vice versa? Like have a TW rom then go into some settings and enable the AOSP status bar and pulldown menu for example.
Maybe this has been done on other phones and some could be done through a different launcher, but figured I would ask. Thoughts?
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I always thought it'd be cool to have a 'ROM Control' like Roman did in a lot of his ROMs, simple ones like, different battery views, add % next to battery (Samsung already added this), init.d tweaks, speed tweak settings, crt off animation enabler, lockscreen options, custom carrier label, etc.
I wish I knew how to do that, I'd go back to the TW ROM.
Sounds like what you're talking about are mostly cosmetic things that can be done fairly easily by changing .png files in the systemui.apk, framework-res.apk, and twframework.apk. It's really as simple as copy and paste.
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Then you'd have to decompile systemui and framework-res with changes. That isn't exactly easy access.
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Not necessarily if you're just changing out .pngs.
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Not necessarily if you're just changing out .pngs.
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+1 you could do it right from your phone using root explorer. Just unzip, switch pngs, rezip, and rename from zip to apk
afbengochea said:
+1 you could do it right from your phone using root explorer. Just unzip, switch pngs, rezip, and rename from zip to apk
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I don't think the frameworks are totally compatible like that. Seems like you're asking for force closes.
I know its easy to swap in the aosp messaging app or calendar or keyboard etc. by swapping your sec.apk files, but I don't mean apps. Like things such as the tablet style notification thing at the bottom or just other UI type stuff not just changing apps.
Thanks for answering though everyone.
Let's say I have a theme I really love except that the background for apps/widgets icon screens is plain black and I want background to be the same as the wallpaper. Given that there is no setting for this, I assume I will need to learn how to open theme, replace plain background with wallpaper and reassemble theme. Yes?
What are the likely names of the home screen and app/widget backgrounds and where in res would they be? They're going to be a png file, yes?
I assume with this information and Photoshop I can follow instructions in how to theme thread to actually accomplish this task.
Is there any other way to accomplish this task?
A lot of apps don't actually have a plain background. It's written in the code to draw every pixel black. So it mostly really comes down to the app developer. If it's not written in the code, then it certainly would be possible to replace the background
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luc.highwalker said:
A lot of apps don't actually have a plain background. It's written in the code to draw every pixel black. So it mostly really comes down to the app developer. If it's not written in the code, then it certainly would be possible to replace the background
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I wasn't being clear. I meant the background on the screens with apps/widgets icons.
Given that wallpaper png is already in apk, I'm thinking changing xml settings for background of apps/widgets screens to wallpaper.png would work...if I knew what these settings were and in which xml file they would be. The other issue is there are several versions of the wallpaper png files in the apk, with different sizes and, I think, resolutions.
It sounds like your talking about the APP DRAWER? If so then you would need to check in the xxxxLauncher.apk (this depends on anything like what firmware/ROM your using. So it could be SecLauncher.apk, ApexLauncher.apk, NovaLauncher.apk, Etc....
So depending on the launcher you would need to see if it has an option already in it or extract the .apk and look for whatever file it uses for the background and replace it with whatever you want to.
For example: Apex Launcher has a setting in Apex Settings/Drawer Settings/Drawer Background Transparency/ popup with moveable bar that will allow it to see through to whichever wallpaper you have on your home screen.
Once you figure out how/where it is located inside the .apk then make sure the wallpaper you want to use is the same pixel size. Now open 7zip and find the launcher.apk and hit OPEN ARCHIVE. Next navigate to where the background.PNG or background.jog file is. Now drag the WALLPAPER you want onto the screen of 7zip. Hit okay when it ask if you want to add it. Now take that .apk and put it back on your phone, use a root explorer and move it to system and paste it there. Now long press on it and choose permissions and set it to rw-r-r. Next long press and hit move. Move to system/app and paste. It should ask to overwrite the .apk so hit yes. Reboot phone and it should be done.
These are just BASIC HOW TOs but should help guide you in the right direction .
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RockRatt said:
It sounds like your talking about the APP DRAWER?
These are just BASIC HOW TOs but should help guide you in the right direction .
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Yes, it is the app drawer. I'll go over your reply and parse out the details. I'm running LiquidSmooth on one S3 and Vanilla Rootbox on other one. LS came with Nova, which I disabled and installed Android stock launcher. I don't know what Rootbox is, but it seems like stock. Same theme on both. Thanks for reply.
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It sounds like your talking about the APP DRAWER? If so then you would need to check in the xxxxLauncher.apk (this depends on anything like what firmware/ROM your using. So it could be SecLauncher.apk, ApexLauncher.apk, NovaLauncher.apk, Etc....
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I checked with several of the launcher devs, and they said that while their app drawer has variably background transparency, they don't support separate wallpaper background. Is that not your experience?