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Smorg is back!!! :D

For those who don't know since he kinda just posted it while i was over there looking at Brandenks Theme Jonny posted Smorg for Akirah!!!
http://www.alldroid.org/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=159
But now he calls it Blackened i guess

i used smorg a while back and i loved it..but it would be nice to have stericsons new lock screen

I love your Blackened theme. I even love the icons, but since I don't have replacement icons for all of my other apps, it annoys me to have some full color icons and some of your nice ones. Is there a way to edit your theme to remove the modified app icons? I'm new to the android, but I've been around the block a time or two for themes on WM. Thanks for your beautiful work.

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"Helpful" is spelled with only one L.

swivel said:
"Helpful" is spelled with only one L.
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Actually, helpful is spelled with two l's.

mr.incredible said:
I love your Blackened theme. I even love the icons, but since I don't have replacement icons for all of my other apps, it annoys me to have some full color icons and some of your nice ones. Is there a way to edit your theme to remove the modified app icons? I'm new to the android, but I've been around the block a time or two for themes on WM. Thanks for your beautiful work.
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If you wanted stock icons you could replace everything in the system/apps/ folder except Launcher.apk with stock apks, and then resign the update. you'll lose some of the theme, but that would be the easiest way to have stock icons
If you use a home replacement app, then you could download the modified milk icon pack I uploaded. Its in the same subforum as the theme, in a thread called extras.

jonnybueno said:
If you wanted stock icons you could replace everything in the system/apps/ folder except Launcher.apk with stock apks, and then resign the update. you'll lose some of the theme, but that would be the easiest way to have stock icons
If you use a home replacement app, then you could download the modified milk icon pack I uploaded. Its in the same subforum as the theme, in a thread called extras.
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actually, if he can sign the file, then he can use this with just the icon version. then replace the icons in the the .apk/res/drawable folder, then sign it, so that he would still have all of the elements of the theme without the icons.

david1171 said:
actually, if he can sign the file, then he can use this with just the icon version. then replace the icons in the the .apk/res/drawable folder, then sign it, so that he would still have all of the elements of the theme without the icons.
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Yeah, that would be better, then he'd still have the widgets and junk.

Thanks for the tips. I just realized I wasn't actually asking jonnybueno directly. Thanks for responding. Good thing you were paying attention.

Does each internal .apk have to be signed or the overall?

You can just sign the whole update zip. No need to individually sign each apk.
It really would just be easier to install the icon pack I posted and use "Bettercut" (2 dollars on the market) to change shortcuts on the desktop. Unless you're concerned about the app drawer... then you should be doing what you're doing.
I chose those milk icons not only because I like them, but also because I hate mismatched icons as well. I think there are around 200 icons.

Miui Icons,folder icons

Does anyone know how to change your icons to the ones like MIUI ? Lowriders themes had them but it doesnt work with MYN 5. Im currently usingin riptide,like the folders look but want MIUI icons

You could replace each .apk icon yourself.
Just find the .png for the icon in each ROM and replace them.

Havent done this myself but you could prolly use Desktop Visualizer and make your own icons... I've made a bunch of them and it's really not that hard, esp once you get one made... I use GIMP

KommyDroid said:
You could replace each .apk icon yourself.
Just find the .png for the icon in each ROM and replace them.
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Where are those Icons located on my phone?

[Q] A couple questions.

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.

TW 4.0 dock icons

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.

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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

Possible to mix AOSP and TouchWiz??

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.