Themeing cm9. - Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Would it work to theme the actual cm9 rom to get things themed that themes can't get such as lock screen? That's the only thing I can think of right now but I'm sure there's more things. Would this work or does the theme replace any files that would change whatever was changed from the original rom?
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lilajrestnom said:
Would it work to theme the actual cm9 rom to get things themed that themes can't get such as lock screen? That's the only thing I can think of right now but I'm sure there's more things. Would this work or does the theme replace any files that would change whatever was changed from the original rom?
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Yes it will work just fine. As long as the theme apk doesnt interfere with what your themeing it will be just fine. I'll break down what the theme is..
Essentially it is a redirection. It has the drawable folders just like the ROM for whatever DPI, in the epic's case HDPI. How it works is a redirection XML will shoot the application to another XML which is written to specify what goes where. Such as the status_bar... you would place that image in the Drawable-HDPI and the XML for the SystemUI.apk would be written for that [email protected]/status_bar.png if you catch my drift.
Of course its a bit more complicated but that is the essential. just an FYI if you decide to ever make one.

Ya I get what you're saying. I have thought of making a cm7/9 theme but never had time. But I think I want to just add a little more to the theme that hasn't been done.
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CM7 and CM9 themes aren't cross compatible at least fully.
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CM7 and CM9 themes aren't cross compatible at least fully.
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Ya I know that I meant that they're both used the same way, like the lock screen isn't themed from the theme itself. I know that I can't use them on both roms lol. I may have asked a dumb question earlier about contacts but I'm not that much of a noob to try cm9 themes on cm7 lol. And the contacts was just because I don't have experience with cm9 lol this is the first time I ever ever actually use it lol.
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[Q] Stock Launcher Color Change?

I have looked and searched and i cannot find a thread on this and i am thinking i might be barking up the wrong tree.
I run the stock launcher on cm7 and super cm7 and i would like to change the color of the three icons on the bottom or the homescreen and thats it. Colors of everything else i want to stay the same. Is this even possible?
I do not want to run lp or adw. I'll stay with green if thats the case.
If you change themes with the theme chooser it should change. That's if you don't mind switching themes.
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SomEngangVar said:
If you change themes with the theme chooser it should change. That's if you don't mind switching themes.
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Not to be a **** but the OP says I want everything else to stay the same. Why would you suggest switching themes.
Guess ill just figure out how to export this theme and change icons myself through theme manager. I was hoping maybe someone would know a quick and easy way of changing the color.
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ngc604 said:
Not to be a **** but the OP says I want everything else to stay the same. Why would you suggest switching themes.
Guess ill just figure out how to export this theme and change icons myself through theme manager. I was hoping maybe someone would know a quick and easy way of changing the color.
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you should be able to modify the dock pngs in the launcher apk without trouble. I've changed colors around on a vanilla launcher before... just decompiled the launcher apk, changed the pngs I wanted to change, compiled and replaced the apk.. voila.
Awesome. Thanks.
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You can use ninja morphology, that's how I got mattedblue colors on my stock launcher. Although ever since adw ex got updated I've been using it.
got the decompile thing down. guess all there is to do is find out how good i am in gimp.
thanks again
Why don't you use adw ex? It's so much better than the stock and you get to keep the gingerbread dock but customize icons and their colors...You really cannot go wrong...

[Q] [REQ][THEME PORT] GalaxII Theme

Hey, after TW 4.0 is really working for our device, I was wondering if it was possible someone could work on a theme port like this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1058221
It would go great with the new EE03 ROMs since it is Gingerbread and it just looks amazing!
(Although, please, don't change the notification bar like they did! I hate battery % mods, lol)
Oh, and also can someone include the green CRT overscroll animation and some of the other green parts (like the text and copy and paste icons)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=814091
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Hey, after TW 4.0 is really working for our device, I was wondering if it was possible someone could work on a theme port like this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1058221
It would go great with the new EE03 ROMs since it is Gingerbread and it just looks amazing!
(Although, please, don't change the notification bar like they did! I hate battery % mods, lol)
Oh, and also can someone include the green CRT overscroll animation and some of the other green parts (like the text and copy and paste icons)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=814091
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To each in own but i like the % battery it shows the regular bar as well as the % so i you cant really complain there but if its going to be such a hassle why not make 2 diff. versions if alot of people request that. i doubt it though.
Also this theme is pretty stock and just like the stock Gingerbread theme so i hardly doubt that this is going to be ported.
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XxLostSoulxX said:
To each in own but i like the % battery it shows the regular bar as well as the % so i you cant really complain there but if its going to be such a hassle why not make 2 diff. versions if alot of people request that. i doubt it though.
Also this theme is pretty stock and just like the stock Gingerbread theme so i hardly doubt that this is going to be ported.
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Well, the battery % thing is just a me thing. I don't really care if it's there; it just makes me more obsessed with battery life.
Second, the icons are pretty different and would be an interesting addition combined with the new TW 4.0.
I know it doesn't have major theme changes, but it's sleek and feels more up-to-date with the GS II in my opinion.
Great idea that new touchwiz look is sexy
I like that. Looks awesome.
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Bumppp. Come on, anyone willing to take on this challenge?
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No one? D:
I tried to start
Since my internet just turned to crap recently I can't download stuff quickly.
I downloaded like 2 stock gs2 rom files (took about a whole day each) and they were both password protected so I couldn't un zip them
that's where I kinda gave up
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Here is contacts and mms and phone and modified tw4 launcher to look more like gs2
http://db.tt/J8WDSAo
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gtuansdiamm said:
Here is contacts and mms and phone and modified tw4 launcher to look more like gs2
http://db.tt/J8WDSAo
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Do u flash this? And does it work for the leak 2.3
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No
You only flash tw launcher
Rest you should move to system>app with root explorer
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Screnshots?
I'm using astro file manger and its not leting me paste the other .apk files into the system/app folder......
I also have clockpackage.apk from the stock EC05 but can't install it either...
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gtuansdiamm said:
No
You only flash tw launcher
Rest you should move to system>app with root explorer
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I plan on trying to make myself a little theme based off of 2.2.
My question is could I use everything in the zip for my theme on 2.2?
Sorry
I thought i already put it up
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Hmmm... I might make a theme. I am decent at it now.
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marcusant said:
Hmmm... I might make a theme. I am decent at it now.
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Yes plz lol.
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Please make an EE03 theme for this
Btw the contacts app didn't work.
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Please make an EE03 theme for this
Btw the contacts app didn't work.
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For what?
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For what?
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For the theme I posted in the OP.

[THEME] Stevekixs Theme

This is my first time ever putting together a theme. I used UOT kitchen just to put something together. Its just black and blue with honeycomb icons.
I think it still needs some work, I'm not sure how to edit the colors of widgets or apps yet.
I am probably going to make some changes as I get better. If anyone has any advice then feel free to PM me.
Features : Custom Battery Icon
Honeycomb Icons
Black notification bar (transparent background)
Dark Blue overscrolls
Other slight Color changes
Kinda ugly I think... But Im sharing it anyway!
You should be able to flash via CWM.
BACK UP YOUR ROM BEFORE FLASHING JUST IN CASE.
NEW: Just edited some of the colors a bit And changed the battery icon.
Screenshots
(Not updated for new version) I will take new screenshots later. I am tired. The new colors are much better I think.
Changes
Please tell me what you like / dont like.
Looks great besides the battery icon, should be blue like the rest. Great work though and thanks!
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jasontx said:
Looks great besides the battery icon, should be blue like the rest. Great work though and thanks!
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Its honeycomb colored. But It changes color when your battery is at different levels.
At full charge it matches the rest of the honeycomb icons.
Im working on some tweaks already. I dont like the color of the pop up screens.
I understand, thanks a million, looks great so far. I'm excited to see where you take it.
Maybe I should research this kitchen stuff and take a shot at themes too!
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Kitchen is real easy. Im trying to figure out how to mod the widgets and other apks to match the theme.
http://uot.dakra.lt/kitchen/
Thx for the link!
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stevekixs said:
Kitchen is real easy. Im trying to figure out how to mod the widgets and other apks to match the theme.
http://uot.dakra.lt/kitchen/
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You can do this by using a program like WinZip or 7Zip to open the APK files (they're effectively just .zip archives with a different extension) and changing the files. Its pretty easy save for the part where you have to make new images. Most images used in Android are .9.png files which need to be nine patched. There are tons of threads all over XDA about how to do this. Check it out, mate.
BTW nice work.
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You can do this by using a program like WinZip or 7Zip to open the APK files (they're effectively just .zip archives with a different extension) and changing the files. Its pretty easy save for the part where you have to make new images. Most images used in Android are .9.png files which need to be nine patched. There are tons of threads all over XDA about how to do this. Check it out, mate.
BTW nice work.
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Thanks. Im going to try that out later.
Do you know how I'd modify the bar above the notifications with the wifi etc? It looks kinda ugly because everything else is black lol.
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Very nice work.any chance of getting rid of your name on the notification window???.
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stevekixs said:
Thanks. Im going to try that out later.
Do you know how I'd modify the bar above the notifications with the wifi etc? It looks kinda ugly because everything else is black lol.
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That i'm not so sure about. check in the tw framework apk
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ICS lockscreen question

Is it possible to "transplant" an ICS lockscreen (ie from juggernaut 5.0) and install on another ROM?
I'm using MALICE now, with Eugene's new kernel. I'm tech savvy with some things but a noob with this stuff.
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evanladoux said:
Is it possible to "transplant" an ICS lockscreen (ie from juggernaut 5.0) and install on another ROM?
I'm using MALICE now, with Eugene's new kernel. I'm tech savvy with some things but a noob with this stuff.
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my lockscreen is transparent. I'm not exactly sure what's the process, but I had a picture from my gallery on there, and I flashed another ROM or something along those lines and the screen is transparent, probably because I don't have that picture anymore? not sure? You can try deleting the picture after you set it?
Sorry I don't know the exact way to do it, but it is possible.
What I did was download go launcher
Then I downloaded go locker then found the ics theme lockscreen then I set the default launcher for whichever rom I was running(don't pick go launcher). And boom ics lockscreen on the rom and you don't even have to run go luncher you just have to download it for the locker to work....probably not the way you wanted but that's probably the easiest way...ha
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@teo032
I think he meant transplant not transparent. As far as making your lockscreen "transparent" goes, all you need to do is go to cwm and fix permissions, then reboot. It will remove the assigned lockscreen .jpeg file to none.
@evanladoux
Implementing a lockscreen to be built in to a rom is very long process and it requires that you understand programming fairly well.
Yea lockscreens never used to be hard, but in GB witb samsung, its a pain.
M&S
Thank you everybody for your replies.
I was looking to get a built in lockscreen rather than Go Locker, which is what I just went with.
I was hoping it might be as easy as unzipping a ROM, & rename/copy/paste a few files into the DD folders.
Its fine until we have a fully functional TMO ICS. I use Wifi Calling a LOT, so, the current batch of ICS ROMs won't work for me as a DD, though I appreciate all the dev's work to provide (ie M&S .. too many to list)
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Apologies if I'm breaking any rules but....

1st off I wanna say no disrespect to the devs...I appreciate all the hard work that goes into all the awesome roms...seems that with all the talk of jellybean and without an official ics release that THEMING has taking a back seat..although i am enjoying team rejects change of pace (annihilation is awesome!) And I love the look of miui but I can't get it to work good enough for me to use as my daily,with that being said I kinda long for the days of a DUSK theme or an all white with black letter theme like the GTX rom I had on my TP2 I think these would look sweet on my et4g...anyone willing to work on anything similar to these?
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White with black lettering would be a battery killer!
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Yeah..I thought about that after I posted this......just looking for a change of pace...liking the capabilities of what jellybean brings to the table but not the look..and I can see xda getting as flooded with variations of jb as it is with Ics...thanks for the reply though!
I remember those themes. That really takes me back. But it would be awesome to see the dusk theme on this badboy
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D1rk said:
I remember those themes. That really takes me back. But it would be awesome to see the dusk theme on this badboy
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AGREED!:good:
Dude. you can do most of this yourself..with wallpapers, beautiful Widgets. custom icon sets, themable launchers and icons, rocket dial allows you to theme your dialer...don't wait for somebody to do it for you bro...create your own masterpiece...
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bimmerman7 said:
Dude. you can do most of this yourself..with wallpapers, beautiful Widgets. custom icon sets, themable launchers and icons, rocket dial allows you to theme your dialer...don't wait for somebody to do it for you bro...create your own masterpiece...
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I'm too lazy. but I will try it.
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Lol...the good old HD2 days.... I remember my favorite theme was "Energy" .
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Duce HD2 said:
Lol...the good old HD2 days.... I remember my favorite theme was "Energy" .
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Nrgz themes were always the best. It made any screen pop. I also remember sencity that theme was awesome too.
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bimmerman7 said:
Dude. you can do most of this yourself..with wallpapers, beautiful Widgets. custom icon sets, themable launchers and icons, rocket dial allows you to theme your dialer...don't wait for somebody to do it for you bro...create your own masterpiece...
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Thanks for the words of encouragement but I am far from skilled enough to do all that(hell I even gave up on uccw and mclock because I couldn't get em to work right for me..lol) might not have been anything special to anyone else in Xdaland but I've been proud of my previous screenies on this phone though...good idea!..thanks again!
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I'm too lazy. but I will try it.
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Lol..good luck man..keep me posted!..
Nrg themes were pretty awesome...did you ever try sharkies ROM?
I wonder what phone those 2 devs are on now...
Also...I highly recommend giving this launcher a try...the customization options are so amazing, it took me like a week til I got my pages like I wanted them. Check out some of these guys setups, you can find mine in this thread if you go deep enough...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22746249
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bimmerman7 said:
Also...I highly recommend giving this launcher a try...the customization options are so amazing, it took me like a week til I got my pages like I wanted them. Check out some of these guys setups, you can find mine in this thread if you go deep enough...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22746249
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Thanks again...pretty awesome when senior members like yourself sit and chat with us lil guys...haha...much appreciated bro!
ling4383 said:
Thanks again...pretty awesome when senior members like yourself sit and chat with us lil guys...haha...much appreciated bro!
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Shee-it! I'm nobody special, I just like the subject....I like to be able to show my phone to those iPhone assholes and them be like Holy ****! that's so cool, yeah that's right....you can't do that with your iPhone! I got tired of waiting for a rom or theme to come out, only to be disappointed because its somebody else's idea of the way they want their phone to look...f that...just play around you'll be amazed what you can do with your phone...this is my 2 year old Evo running ReMics-UX which is a SGS3 port...
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ling4383 said:
Thanks for the words of encouragement but I am far from skilled enough to do all that(hell I even gave up on uccw and mclock because I couldn't get em to work right for me..lol) might not have been anything special to anyone else in Xdaland but I've been proud of my previous screenies on this phone though...good idea!..thanks again!
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If you could post a link to a theme or the icons, might be a good idea for a new rom
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bimmerman7 said:
Shee-it! I'm nobody special, I just like the subject....I like to be able to show my phone to those iPhone assholes and them be like Holy ****! that's so cool, yeah that's right....you can't do that with your iPhone! I got tired of waiting for a rom or theme to come out, only to be disappointed because its somebody else's idea of the way they want their phone to look...f that...just play around you'll be amazed what you can do with your phone...this is my 2 year old Evo running ReMics-UX which is a SGS3 port...
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You sir should start theming or making roms... Just saying.
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If you could post a link to a theme or the icons, might be a good idea for a new rom
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You sir should start theming or making roms... Just saying.
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I'm telling you guys, you can do it yourself, all you need is a good CM9 or CM7 base rom, find a theme you like for the theme Chooser in that rom, use a themeable launcher, Apex, ADW EX, or SSLauncher, this thread a **** ton of icon sets http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19600116
I use the free app ChargeBar (in play store) for a centered bottom status bar battery bar, I use Rom Toolbox to change system font, I use Android Pro Widgets for Twitter, Messaging, Bookmark, and Calendar Widgets...these have different themes and colors available for the Widgets....Here is a link to some of what I did with SsLauncher...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25394812
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Also for dialer, I recommend Rocket Dial it has different themes, and you can find a theme for just about any 3rd party keyboard out there...I like ICS keyboard in the market
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I'm telling you guys, you can do it yourself, all you need is a good CM9 or CM7 base rom, find a theme you like for the theme Chooser in that rom, use a themeable launcher, Apex, ADW EX, or SSLauncher, this thread a **** ton of icon sets http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19600116
I use the free app ChargeBar (in play store) for a centered bottom status bar battery bar, I use Rom Toolbox to change system font, I use Android Pro Widgets for Twitter, Messaging, Bookmark, and Calendar Widgets...these have different themes and colors available for the Widgets....Here is a link to some of what I did with SsLauncher...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25394812
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With all those mods or Widgets running, doesn't it eat your battery?
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Uamore6 said:
With all those mods or Widgets running, doesn't it eat your battery?
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Not really any more than having Sense or something like that on your phone, its more of a kernel thing and we have some great evo specific kernel devs over here, you just have to find a pure AOSP rom without all the Sense, TouchWiz, Motoblur overlays, then just add your own Widgets icons launcher dialer keyboard font over that and create your personalized interface the way you want it....
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was gonna post this elsewhere, but here's as good as a place as any i suppose. for those that want to mess around with theming here's a great place to start. it's a vrtheme template for our phone. It should work with most roms. here's a link with some quick info and the download link with our updated binary. all thanks to the villianrom team for a great template/idea
http://www.villainrom.co.uk/forum/threads/about-villaintheme-system.4971/
http://www.mediafire.com/?ddi2vc7qeg2y44x
basically instead of having to decompile and recompile apk's and have a complete and working apk to flash, this only requires that you place the images, xml's etc in the correct folder structure. everything is in the vrtheme folder in the zip. so to theme a system app, say systemui, you would create a folder called SystemUI.apk in the correct folder structure, namely vrtheme/system/app/SystemUI.apk. then all you have to do is drag and drop the images you want swapped into the proper folder locations. I included an example folder structure for images in drawable-hdpi for systemui and framework-res to get ya started. beauty of this is you can literally drag and drop whole sections of other themes into the template and it will just replace those images on our phone. So if those themes in the OP have same sized images and same names, you could just drag and drop those into the respective vrtheme zip folder and flash away. Make sense? just starting to get this going again on our phones, so mess around, but be careful, I'm obviously not responsible to anything you do
it can also be used to theme paid apps, which is sweet. since your not actually including the apk itself, and the app has to be in the location specified before you apply the theme.

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