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Hi guys! I am having some trouble themeing this. I am familiar with transparency as I have done the status bar itself, and I did the background for the pull down bar transparent but it shows up black.. I've searched hi and low (I'm sure I'm doing something wrong not to find the answer, and I'm sorry for this but I really would like to know how to do this). Is there an edit I need to do to an xml file or something I'm not familiar with XML what so ever but if anyone could help me out in anyway guide me in the right direction or whatever that would be very great and I'd be very appreciative!, thanks guys
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You need to edit the services.jar i believe.
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You need to edit the services.jar i believe.
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Gahh thanks for the reply man, I have noo idea how to do that i do have ubuntu set up though, I'll try and figure it out if no one else chimes in. Thanks again mang,
I'll upload my services.jar when I get a chance if you'd like
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That would be great, how do I open the file though?do I need some apk tool?
Just use mine in place of yours?? I just took the services out of a Rom and use that
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ahh yea I know how to do that, but I want to know how to do the actual work myself and not just copy n paste someone elses. theres much more in that file that I may not want. ya know?
Then sorry to say i can not help you.
Ive only learned how to take things out and use them for what i want.
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Then sorry to say i can not help you.
Ive only learned how to take things out and use them for what i want.
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No I hear you I appriciate it man, I do the same thing I just recently learned how to deodex an RUU file so I've just been running stock rom with my own additions, which is why I asked this question
If you're really interested in learning this, and you can't figure it out with extensive google research, try sending a private message to stoney 666, jlechner, or chingy51o.
Be mindful that they are all senior members and are very busy, but they are also very committed to this community. Show due respect and they should help you out.
Good luck my friend.
Was looking for a new ROM for my friends MT3G and ran across this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848791
Id love to get a group together and get this rolling. Im just a fan of blue
any takers?
Well cyanogen is already a rom in the process check dev. Forum
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Sorry thought u were talking about a rom and bubs asop magic is the closest theme to this sorry for the misunderstanding
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No biggie. I dont even care about the cyan junk...i just want the pretty colors LOL
This does look really cool, I would port it but I'm not a fan of blue lol. I'll download the rom and poke around in the framework to see the images and how easy it would be to port.
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The theme looks great. I'm diggin the font, colors.... just about everything! Would love to see it on my epic
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Slick looking theme! Wish I knew something about porting!
upload your framework-res.apk and twframework-res.apk and i will see what i can do. you will have to test as i have a vibrant
This one is nice too, its a darker blue than the one from the OP http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=684980
I've been able to replace our Market and notification background with both versions from the above posts, and they are real sick! I can start posting them as I go along but I've never posted a zip, nor do I know how to create a zip to flash in clockwork so I'll take a look around and figure it out, or if anyone could point me in the right direction I'd greatly appreciate it!
Freakin sweet!! Downloading now and adding bits and pieces to my theme too. Like posted above I'm not familiar on how to make a flashable zip through clockwork either. maybe someone will chime in.
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Freakin sweet!! Downloading now and adding bits and pieces to my theme too. Like posted above I'm not familiar on how to make a flashable zip through clockwork either. maybe someone will chime in.
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If you find the answer elsewhere please share and I'll do likewise!!!
Will do man.
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If you find the answer elsewhere please share and I'll do likewise!!!
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1. Download my Blue Galaxy froyo theme
2. Open it with 7zip
3. Replace my framework and twframework with yours
4. flash the zip file in clockwork
Oh this theme could easly be ported,i will port this for ya after i port Xperia x1 theme.
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Freakin sweet!! Downloading now and adding bits and pieces to my theme too. Like posted above I'm not familiar on how to make a flashable zip through clockwork either. maybe someone will chime in.
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I usually just grab an existing (theme only), delete out the stuff I don't want, add in the apks (like framework-res.apk) I've modded, then flash... if you're just doing png edits. And make sure you keep the same file structure, of course.
Well I actually tried that but was unsuccessful. Maybe because I was using winrar. I'll try it with 7zip maybe that's my issue. Thanks!
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I was going to ask this for EL13 but being that a new leak is out, might as well ask on that, lol...
I like to run stock but 2 things I'm addicted to are the battery % mod and the transparent drop-down drawer.
if I'm the only one, I wouldn't expect a themer to go nuts... but I know a lot of people like to run stock so if this can happen, I'd be eternally thankful
might want to change your topic it's EL26 EL22 was talked about but just as an RDF file that showed up iirc.
cidica said:
might want to change your topic it's EL26 EL22 was talked about but just as an RDF file that showed up iirc.
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ACK! you're right. stupid typos
thanks
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I was going to ask this for EL13 but being that a new leak is out, might as well ask on that, lol...
I like to run stock but 2 things I'm addicted to are the battery % mod and the transparent drop-down drawer.
if I'm the only one, I wouldn't expect a themer to go nuts... but I know a lot of people like to run stock so if this can happen, I'd be eternally thankful
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You don't know about UOT kitchen? Also you should read up on theming since the two things you are asking for can easily be done by you. Its just a matter of changing PNG files within the apk.
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You don't know about UOT kitchen? Also you should read up on theming since the two things you are asking for can easily be done by you. Its just a matter of changing PNG files within the apk.
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here's the problem with that
I have absolutely no idea what you just said, lol
PNG files are image files. Like a .jpg they end with .png
An apk (.apk) is the application package. Every application on your phone is an apk file. You can open them with 7zip - don't unzip it though unless you feel like signing it and other crap. Also, make sure you zipalign and optimize the PNG files (Google that).
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PNG files are image files. Like a .jpg they end with .png
An apk (.apk) is the application package. Every application on your phone is an apk file. You can open them with 7zip - don't unzip it though unless you feel like signing it and other crap. Also, make sure you zipalign and optimize the PNG files (Google that).
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hahaha now he is really confused. Lol Hey try UOT Kitchen hopefully by now you have looked it up and not just said I dont know what that is. If you have not then pm me and I can try and help you further. But try to help yourself as well...Good luck
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I was going to ask this for EL13 but being that a new leak is out, might as well ask on that, lol...
I like to run stock but 2 things I'm addicted to are the battery % mod and the transparent drop-down drawer.
if I'm the only one, I wouldn't expect a themer to go nuts... but I know a lot of people like to run stock so if this can happen, I'd be eternally thankful
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If this is something you really want I can do it for you. I would say do it yourself but the battery % mod can be a little tricky. I am assuming you just want the stock battery icons then?
PM me and we can chat more.
Uot kitchen is so easy to do. Just upload the needed files and theme it up
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If this is something you really want I can do it for you. I would say do it yourself but the battery % mod can be a little tricky. I am assuming you just want the stock battery icons then?
PM me and we can chat more.
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What's tricky about exchanging files. He will be.alright and its great practice for future theming. Its android not IOS so nandroid and go at it.
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Thanks for all the info guys, Im not the OP of this thread but I have learned just as much by reading it, thanks!
i would also like this done...
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i would also like this done...
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Have you ever tried UOT Kitchen, it may also even teach you something about theming....Maybe? Give it a shot
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What's tricky about exchanging files. He will be.alright and its great practice for future theming. Its android not IOS so nandroid and go at it.
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The default system is not setup for % icons so you have to add a bunch of images and set the xml file to use them. It was more going through the xml. If this is all he wants changed then why would he learn xml?
I have been trying to find this image and cannot. In the screen shot I am trying to take the progress bar you see in green and go blue with it. I have looked through both frameworks and systemui and anything else I can think of. I can find several twprogressbar PNG's but they are already blue from the theme Im using. Does anyone know where that image is at. Thanks in advance.
try secdownloadprovider.apk
Just checked. No green pngs in it either. Thanks.
Checked both. The actual provider doesn't even have a Res folder. Kinda odd.
Its an xml not a PNG. I don't have a PC right now so I can't look and tell u the exact one but dazed knows. I would send him a pm. Sorry I couldn't be more help but it changed in ICS and without being able to look I can't remember which it is.
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Its an xml not a PNG. I don't have a PC right now so I can't look and tell u the exact one but dazed knows. I would send him a pm. Sorry I couldn't be more help but it changed in ICS and without being able to look I can't remember which it is.
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Hey that is awesome. Thank you. I throught I was going insane. Its the only green really left and I wanted to try and change it. I'm not the greatest with XML but I can give it a shot. Thanks again. I'll shoot him a PM after while.
Its really easy to change. If u want u can download my theme or Dazed‘s blue theme or an ICS theme and when u know the exact one u can swap them out or you can open them up and look at it so u get an idea. U need to use something like notepad++ to edit the XML and if your going to make the change yourself your going to need to decompile the apk because just extracting it with 7zip or something won't allow u to edit the XML. U won't be able to read it.
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Hi tiff.
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Hi tiff.
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Hey!! Where u been?? Why aren't u building themes??
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Its really easy to change. If u want u can download my theme or Dazed‘s blue theme or an ICS theme and when u know the exact one u can swap them out or you can open them up and look at it so u get an idea. U need to use something like notepad++ to edit the XML and if your going to make the change yourself your going to need to decompile the apk because just extracting it with 7zip or something won't allow u to edit the XML. U won't be able to read it.
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Thanks. Once I know which one it is I may do that. The hardest time I'm having right now is decompiling and recompiling ICS frameworks without issues. I am using APk multi tool and for the life of me I cannot get it to see the project. I try to decompile with dependencies and it says select a project so I do. But it never selects. I'll keep playing with it. But if burst knows which one it is that would be awesome. I see he's now in the thread.
Have u tried using the tool agat posted in development?
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Have u tried using the tool agat posted in development?
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You know I downloaded it but didn't really give it a shot. Maybe that should be were I move to instead of keep beating my head against the table with the Multi tool. I'll give it a shot.
Apk manager is the best. I'm tired so too lazy to read previous posts, but the progress bar XML is progress_horizontal.XML under framework-res.apk > Res > Layout.
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Apk manager is the best. I'm tired so too lazy to read previous posts, but the progress bar XML is progress_horizontal.XML under framework-res.apk > Res > Layout.
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I just decompiled that and couldnt seem to see that file in the layout folder. maybe im looking in the wrong place?
Edit, there is one in the drawable folder?
Well I changed out the Progress_horizontal.xml and the TWprogress_horizontal.xml from the drawable folder. I used the framework from Tiffs ICS with a twist of Honey theme v1.0. That damn bar is still green. Verified all the PNGs were right. And made sure that I did indeed get thee right xmls switched over. Not sure what else to try. I looked in the layout folder and there wasn't a file named that in there. and ideas?
My bad, it is drawable. For ICS, it might be a part of SystemUI. (They also placed the battery mods in there.) Try those sub folders and search for "progress". I haven't done any ICS theming as of yet, but I think that should do it.
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My bad, it is drawable. For ICS, it might be a part of SystemUI. (They also placed the battery mods in there.) Try those sub folders and search for "progress". I haven't done any ICS theming as of yet, but I think that should do it.
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I think I may have got it, I just decompiled and changed the color code in the progress_horizontal.xml and recompiled. I looked through systemui and didn't see any files with that name. I'm flashing now so we will see shortley. Thanks for all your help. I will post back in just a few with the results.
Nope. OK, time to browse systemui a little better.
Found another one in tw.framework
OK, so I think I know what my issue is, problem in my process. thanks again. post back when i figure something out. if anyone has anymore input its all welcome.
OK, Im at a loss. I have changed it in both frameworks. still that bar is green, i dont get it.
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I think I may have got it, I just decompiled and changed the color code in the progress_horizontal.xml and recompiled. I looked through systemui and didn't see any files with that name. I'm flashing now so we will see shortley. Thanks for all your help. I will post back in just a few with the results.
Nope. OK, time to browse systemui a little better.
Found another one in tw.framework
OK, so I think I know what my issue is, problem in my process. thanks again. post back when i figure something out. if anyone has anymore input its all welcome.
OK, Im at a loss. I have changed it in both frameworks. still that bar is green, i dont get it.
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It's gotta be the framework-res one. Are you editing the hex values? Eg: #ff475864
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It's gotta be the framework-res one. Are you editing the hex values? Eg: #ff475864
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Yeah, I am having some trouble getting apk manager to find the project. it keeps telling me to select a project and I select one, but it doesnt sellect., any ideas on that one.
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Yeah, I am having some trouble getting apk manager to find the project. it keeps telling me to select a project and I select one, but it doesnt sellect., any ideas on that one.
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Not sure lol. It should show up if you have the apk in the right folder. I think u gotta place it in the 'pleace apk here for modding' folder. Option to select should be 25.
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I am looking fire a developer who can help me port over a simple mod. I tried in my own but do not know enough. I do but want them to just do it I want them to explain what to do so next time I can do it myself.
I originally thought I just needed to change the Mount points but that did but fix it. After installing the mod the phone hangs at the boot splash animation fir the Rom.
Please can someone help me learn
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What MOD is it?
I like to break stuff!
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What MOD is it?
I like to break stuff!
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It is a morph mod to change all the text Color on the phone
http://db.tt/9RlVWKxv
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Downloading it now I'll take a look and see what needs to be done to port it over and let you know
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Downloading it now I'll take a look and see what needs to be done to port it over and let you know
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Thanks. . Keep in mind I want to learn from this. .
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What phone is it for? If it involves a resource file from another phone it prob needs to be modified for our device's framework-res. Will also DL and take a look later
Edit: there is a resource file in there, that would be device and android version specific. And since its not a whole Apk it'd be hard to decompile and port. What's it from?
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What phone is it for? If it involves a resource file from another phone it prob needs to be modified for our device's framework-res. Will also DL and take a look later
Edit: there is a resource file in there, that would be device and android version specific. And since its not a whole Apk it'd be hard to decompile and port. What's it from?
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Pretty sure it's from the sgsIII thats where I saw it as part of morphology so it shouldn't be extremely difficult to port or remake if need be. As a matter of fact mackentosh may add it in if he updates his morphology port since it's included in the newset sgsIII version. Really all it does is flash new font colors to the /system and launchers you can choose one or the other or both heres the original thread over on sprint sgsIII themes and apps http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2091572
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Pretty sure it's from the sgsIII thats where I saw it as part of morphology so it shouldn't be extremely difficult to port or remake if need be. As a matter of fact mackentosh may add it in if he updates his morphology port since it's included in the newset sgsIII version. Really all it does is flash new font colors to the /system and launchers you can choose one or the other or both heres the original thread over on sprint sgsIII themes and apps http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2091572
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It "flashes new font colors to the /system" by replacing the compiled resources.arsc from the framework-res.apk from the sg3 Which is why he's getting a bootloop. And unless we have his framework-res.apk its not all that easy to decompile the resources to change. So unless you know something I don't this is built for the wrong phone and can't just be "ported" by replacing a few files here and there.
You could chuck this resource file into the stock framework-res that he's using and decompile, that sometimes works. Then copy the appropriate lines in colors.xml etc to our framework-res then compile. Then take that resources file and put it in a morph zip and it should work. But there's tons of xml's in there that are dif on our note
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It "flashes new font colors to the /system" by replacing the compiled resources.arsc from the framework-res.apk from the sg3 Which is why he's getting a bootloop. And unless we have his framework-res.apk its not all that easy to decompile the resources to change. So unless you know something I don't this is built for the wrong phone and can't just be "ported" by replacing a few files here and there.
You could chuck this resource file into the stock framework-res that he's using and decompile, that sometimes works. Then copy the appropriate lines in colors.xml etc to our framework-res then compile. Then take that resources file and put it in a morph zip and it should work. But there's tons of xml's in there that are dif on our note
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Its universal for TW roms on the sgsIII so it would probably be easier to just redo the mod based off of the note 2 files instead of trying to actually port it over. I haven't had a chance to open it up and see what we'd need to mod for a note 2 version. But seeing as how the sgsIII version works with any TW rom it shouldn't be too hard to make something similar for the note. The flashing part was just what they said in the sgsIII thread, I just haven't had the time to look and see what exactly it does.
Edit: I was actually thinking it was xml and smali edits to change the system font colors. I'm not all that great with smali/backsmali but I can manage as long ad I have my cheatsheet handy
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Edit: there is a resource file in there, that would be device and android version specific. And since its not a whole Apk it'd be hard to decompile and port. What's it from?
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Hmm I didn't think it would be that big a deal. I flash lots of sg3 stuff and they run fine. This is from morph like people have said and I run the morph itself directly as was written for the sg3. I am told something needs to be modified but it works fine for me the way it is and none will tell me what the original morph needs changed. I was thinking since this is pay off the morph it would be simpler than De compiling. I used to be a programmer and it kills me to have to wait around for someone to do something I could easily learn to do with a little guidance. . I will just keep trying. .
What resource is it using that would need to be changed?
Thanks for the input even if it didn't help
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Hmm I didn't think it would be that big a deal. I flash lots of sg3 stuff and they run fine. This is from morph like people have said and I run the morph itself directly as was written for the sg3. I am told something needs to be modified but it works fine for me the way it is and none will tell me what the original morph needs changed. I was thinking since this is pay off the morph it would be simpler than De compiling. I used to be a programmer and it kills me to have to wait around for someone to do something I could easily learn to do with a little guidance. . I will just keep trying. .
What resource is it using that would need to be changed?
Thanks for the input even if it didn't help
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It's not that it's a big deal, its just that without the entire apk it makes it a little more difficult getting the values from his work and transferring them to ours. Most likely one could just download the rom he was working with (was it like LJ7 or something?), pull out the framework-res.apk, put the resource file from the morph into the framework-res.apk, then decompile it.
The rub is that we are not just dealing with single xml's in the morph. Alot of the time morphs with single xmls will work between phones, as the description for a battery mod or whatever is generally the same in Android. The problem is there is a resource file, which is several xml's bundled together from the values folder of a decompiled framework-res. In there there's several things that are device specific, the dimensions of things, the styles.xml, the public.xml etc. That is what is most likely causing the problem. All you want from the resource file is the info and values from the colors.xml, it's just by itself and needs to be reunited with its apk to be decompiled and transferred. like a tiny example, your transferring a resource file with a colors.xml bundled that doesn't have entries for the SPen, doesnt have a public xml that has all the info and id's of the SNote images in framework etc.
Yes I understand that if a resource file is used it is but a simple move . What does would I look for to know it had a resource file?
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Yes I understand that if a resource file is used it is but a simple move . What does would I look for to know it had a resource file?
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Not sure what your saying here, but I saw it had a resource file included by opening up the zip and looking inside.
In general I'll just say, it seems like your making it sound very easy to simply change all the text colors of a phone. Its not. The xml and such are scattered all over and different for each phone. So essentially your asking someone to either do it, or teach you how to theme as it would take hours and hours to explain the whole process of compiling, searching and changing all the appropriate spots.
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Not sure what your saying here, but I saw it had a resource file included by opening up the zip and looking inside.
In general I'll just say, it seems like your making it sound very easy to simply change all the text colors of a phone. Its not. The xml and such are scattered all over and different for each phone. So essentially your asking someone to either do it, or teach you how to theme as it would take hours and hours to explain the whole process of compiling, searching and changing all the appropriate spots.
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I was asking what kind of file is a resource file. . .xml ? When I open up a zip what would I look for to know it is not going to be compatable
I did not think it would be a big deal. I know now it is.
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I was asking what kind of file is a resource file. . .xml ? When I open up a zip what would I look for to know it is not going to be compatable
I did not think it would be a big deal. I know now it is.
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Resource.arsc is the file. Needs to be decompiled to change. Its not a big deal, you just can't swap files between phones all willy nilly.
Doesn't seem like there's much more I can do to help. You've had a few people chime in with good info and try to help and you haven't even thanked anyone for the effort, so...I'm out
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Unfortunately all the suggestions went over my head. Not yet knowledgeable enough to understand. As i said I am trying to learn. Thanks for trying. I guess I need to figure out how to decompile a rom. Got everything installed to do it but cannot figure it out. Looking for some hand holding but cannot find any.
Thanks anyway
And for the record only you and evil have posted and neither of you seen willing to God my hand and guide me through this. Not a big deal as I have been looking for someone for awhile and still am on my own trying to figure this out. I THOUGHT this was an easy task to break my teeth on but know now it is not. Sorry to have wasted your time. I will keep plugging.
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I have been looking for someone for awhile and still am on my own trying to figure this out.
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You probably end up being on your own with that attitude and not even willing to throw in a thanks. JS
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You probably end up being on your own with that attitude and not even willing to throw in a thanks. JS
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did i miss something? as i just read the entire thread and there was no attitude noted. you seem to be the only one with an attitude in this thread!