I installed the stock MMS.apk file on my de'odexed stock rom (rooted of course). Everything worked well and the app runs, but when reading text threads there is an ugly white border around the edge of the screen, its strange. Its not present when viewing the list of conversations, only in the thread view. I'm not sure if that's how its supposed to look or not, but if not, anyone have any idea how to fix this?
I'll get a screenshot up as soon as I get home.
I first obtained the MMS.apk from the cyanogen rom, then thinking that it might be modified and thus creating my problem, I grabbed the AOSP version from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=789493
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
UPDATE:
Found another thread where people are experiencing the same issue, apparently its a problem with how sense handles the application:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=752604
I attempted to open up the Mms.apk (AOSP version) with APKtool and play around with the xml files for the UI, but wasn't able to get it to recompile and test any changes I made, the app would just crash on launch. I simply made a few changes to the colors, but I admittedly don't really know what I'm doing and it wouldn't run. If anyone who's more experienced in this area could offer some advice I'll try again.
That's a picture of the issue, it appears in both landscape and portrait mode.
Texts were blacked out just for privacy sake.
Well after a few hours of messing around in the XML files for the AOSP messaging app, I was able to find a solution to this issue. I modified the XML file to have it correctly display the black color background when using the black theme. I was not able to eliminate the border entirely, but by changing the scrollbar type from Inset to Overlay I was able to make it uniform and far more visually pleasing.
I have attached my modified Mms.apk file, feel free to test it out.
For the specifics of what I did for those who are interested:
Two files were modified in the apk
- /res/layout/compose_message_activity.xml
- /res/layout/compose_message_activity_black.xml
In both files I changed the scrollbarStyle propery to "insideOverlay", in addition to removing the reference to always show the scrollbar track.
In the black xml file I changed the background color to "@android:color/black".
The original XML files were extracted using APKTool and Recompiled to their binary format, then reinserted into the original apk without resigning.
This is awesome! ... Except it doesn't filter out the VVM message streams that come through. :|
I haven't encountered this problem though I use google voice so I'm not really sure what it is you're referring to.
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ty!
beautiful ty!!!!!!!!!
Imma cry
I cant send mms!
Try turning off wifi while sending/receiving mms
no wifi
i don't have wifi on when i do this i just have 3g on so i can send mms!
i zipped the file with the one that had the white outline .is there a way to make this new apk. file into a .zip file for me ?
I'd imagine you could simply replace the APK file in your zip with my modified one and install that way. Use a program like winrar or 7zip to replace the apk within the zip.
tehpsyc said:
I'd imagine you could simply replace the APK file in your zip with my modified one and install that way. Use a program like winrar or 7zip to replace the apk within the zip.
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sorry but i cant find either of thoses programs u mention to replace the APK file in my zip with your modified version .is there another program or a manual way of doing this process ?
how do i install this? since it's an APK, i thought i'd just install it from Astro but it says it's already installed and asked if i wanted to uninstall.
To install this you need to either delete or rename the Mms.apk that's already on your phone in the /system/app directory (I just rename to Mms.apk.bak) and then copy the modified one into that same directory followed by a restart of the phone. Because its a system app you cant install it the same way you would a regular apk, at least from my understanding.
You will need to get write access to the system directory to accomplish this (I used an app on the market called root explorer, though you can also do all this through the ADB shell)
Can anyone tell me how to sign an apk as I used sign.apk which I thought worked but get a black screen when opening it up after install
I changed app icons and text with Sqliteman-1.2.2
Then replaced with originals when finished...
App works when using root explorer and putting it into system/app then rebooting but not when installing manually
Thanks if you could help..
Hello guys,
I'm trying to change my app drawer icon in (stock) ics 4.0.4. I realy dont like the original and dont want to use a launcher.
I replaced the .png in the Home.apk / res / drawable-hdpi and drawable-mdpi. All with the same name then the originals.
Then placed it back to Sytem/app with root explorer.
Renamed the old stock Home.apk and reboot.
After reboot its still the stock icon and it works normal. Only thing i have to do is put widgets again on home screen.
How is it possible that the stock icon appairs even if i deleted the .png from /drawable?
And whats the correct way to change it?
Many thanks
this https://www.box.com/s/b8af75d2f50b91505f3e
To
this https://www.box.com/s/2648c6bcaad7d4a09fa9
I have modded my SystemUI.apk with the instructions found here. The only problem is that my status bar won't show up at all because I didn't sign it. Even when I did sign it though, it still failed to show up. I have tried signing all the .apks under /system/app/, and framework-res.apk and twframework-res.apk under /system/framework/. When I sign all of them (tried with APKChanger, APK Multitool), the system just boot loops. The ROM I am using is a modified version of stock 2.3.4. Could the problem be that I have placed some downloaded apk files under /system/app/ (to customize my rom)? If not, what is the problem and what can I do to solve it?
Someone reply please?
you have to sign whole system/app folder with dsxida kitchen or use this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16367924
I have a question.
I am running WanamLite 3.0 on my N7100. I have no problem with it, but I have modified SystemUI.apk (to have blue signal indicator bars) and deleted a few apk's in system/app.
As I want to make a new clean installation, I opened the rom with 7zip,and placed the modified SystemUI.apk and deleted the apk's I don't need in system/app. I deleted preloadinstaller.apk, too. Then, I flashed the rom with CWM (PhilZ).
To my surprise, the deleted apk's are installed in system/app and the SystemUI.apk installed is not the modified one, I repeated (reinstalled 2 times, but I got the same result. I checked the rom, but the modified SystemUI.apk is there and the deleted apk's are not there.
So, what should I do not to have preloaded apps come back? Can someone give me a clue?