Does anyone know how to modify or change the default blank Silhouette in the contacts list? I believe Riptide9's ColorNClear theme had this mod by replacing the Silhouette with a blue Android icon. I am running Myn's Warm 2.2 RLS5. Thanks for any assistance.
this can be done by editing the framework-res.apk there is an .png for it which you can either copy over from riptides or use any you want.
ic_contact_picture.png, ic_contact_picture_2.png, and ic_contact_picture_3.png in the framework
picture_unknown.png in Phone.apk
ic_contact_picture.png in Mms.apk
You'll have to change all of them to get a uniform look in your contacts, when you get a call, while texting, etc.
These will change only contacts without photos correct?
Correct.
10char
Thanks. Hopefully I can get this to work.
Use ninjamorph to change from phone and mms thats what i use.
How do i go about using Ninjamorph to make the changes?
Could someone please provide some guidance on how i can achieve this and where these files are located?
Hi,
I wonder how I can get the following done within contacts.apk for ICS (LPB):
1. In the contacts list get rid of the default icons on the left, (green in the attached screenshot 1). I simply don't need caller / contact pictures at all.
2. On the same screen how can I get rid of the dark blue tab-button on the top (red in screenshot 1)? I'd prefer to have it in black or even more without any color.
3. How can I get rid of the big space reserved for a dummy picture in contact detail view (red in screenshot 2)? It eats up a lot of valuable real estate without providing any kind of useful information.
I guess it's not done by editing .png files alone. I did this already - as you can see there's no longer a dummy picture in contact detail view - but I failed for the contact list. Most likely I would need to edit one or more .xml files but don't have a clue which ones and what.
Any ideas or useful hints?
Cheers
Toscha
You will struggle to get this done.
You're right, you do need to edit XML but apktool doesn't like Contacts.APK for some reason.
I've been trying to figure out a way for a while now and haven't had much luck.
Let us know if you succeed.
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That makes me wonder. De- and re-compiling for contacts.apk worked fine already; did a small 'maintenance' for German already.
Nevertheless, thanks for your reply.
Cheers
Toscha
toscha42 said:
That makes me wonder. De- and re-compiling for contacts.apk worked fine already; did a small 'maintenance' for German already.
Nevertheless, thanks for your reply.
Cheers
Toscha
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Oh really?
Does your Phone application work ok? Whenever I have decompiled/recompiled Contacts.apk with NO changes, it force closes. Ive even swapped out resrouces etc with original, no difference.
I am working on another solution as well.
That's true, I also experienced some FCs for phone application. But only randomly and not reproducable. Honestly I didn't care too much as it always recovers instantly.
But for sure, to have a compiled contacts.apk and phone.apk both working smooth would be better.
Cheers
Toscha
Same problems on Galaxy NeXus as well with Contacts.apk. I can compile it, but as soon as Phone.apk touches it, it's FC's..
In Bezke's UltraICS ROM both phone.apk and contacts.apk are themed. There *must* be a way. My guess, it only works on a de-oxed ROM.
Cheers
Toscha
toscha42 said:
In Bezke's UltraICS ROM both phone.apk and contacts.apk are themed. There *must* be a way. My guess, it only works on a de-oxed ROM.
Cheers
Toscha
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Themed? or png's replaced? if hes not changing xml, it wont cause the fc were talking about...
In the thread on UltraICS, second row of screenshots, the dialer does look themed. If it's all done through .png I'd like to know how!
Ciao
Toscha
Cm9 mms
- CM9 Contatcs
- CM9 Dialer
- CM9 Browser
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He's using CM9 contacts. ALL he has then done by the looks, is remove the fine lines that are normally in the background. Just PNG's have been changed.
Further down, the call screens are the same. Colours are stock CM9 I think?
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Look under "SCREENSHOOTS FROM 2.1 - 2.2:"
Contacts is still white - very first screenshot.
Im downloading it now. Will have a look.
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Hrmm... I have a feeling he might have changed some xml.. will look into it
Of course, contacts looks like AOSP(?) / CM9, although I haven't yet installed any of them.
But I'd be happy enough I could get rid of the dark blue background in the tab bar on the top of the dialer (see attached in comparison to UltraICS screenshot) - and of contacts as well. As that's gone with Bezke's UltraICS, and I failed with exchanging nearly each and every .png, I wonder what he did. I only can imagine it's sort of xml-voodoo.
Cheers
Toscha
toscha42 said:
Of course, contacts looks like AOSP(?) / CM9, although I haven't yet installed any of them.
But I'd be happy enough I could get rid of the dark blue background in the tab bar on the top of the dialer (see attached in comparison to UltraICS screenshot) - and of contacts as well. As that's gone with Bezke's UltraICS, and I failed with exchanging nearly each and every .png, I wonder what he did. I only can imagine it's sort of xml-voodoo.
Cheers
Toscha
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.png are in framework-res not in contacts
Try this
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Just make sure to install framework-res & twframework-res with apktool before decompiling phone or contacts and it should work.
wanam said:
Just make sure to install framework-res & twframework-res with apktool before decompiling phone or contacts and it should work.
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hi Wanam .. thanx for your work ! .. i use your rom
Thanks for your comment Wanam. But the problem isn't to de-/re-compile contacts.apk, that works fine. But just de-compiling and re-compiling again, without any changes, of contacts.apk results in FCs in phone.apk once somebody calls you. Actually, the FC comes when the call ends, not during the call.
Cheers
Toscha
jbAttitudEs said:
.png are in framework-res not in contacts
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Cool, thanks! I'll have a look at this immediately.
Cheers
Toscha
toscha42 said:
Thanks for your comment Wanam. But the problem isn't to de-/re-compile contacts.apk, that works fine. But just de-compiling and re-compiling again, without any changes, of contacts.apk results in FCs in phone.apk once somebody calls you. Actually, the FC comes when the call ends, not during the call.
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Toscha
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Try it with compression level set to 0 .
Interesting, I'll give it a try tomorrow!
Cheers
Toscha
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.png are in framework-res not in contacts
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Funny, when I have made changes to PNGs in Contacts for the Phone/Dialer, the changes I make actually happen... are you sure they're in framework? (Wouldn't it look to "android" only if they werent in the apps apk?) According to your Screenshot#2, you have only changed the background? which is a single PNG in Contacts/Phone?
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Just make sure to install framework-res & twframework-res with apktool before decompiling phone or contacts and it should work.
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CM9 doesn't have twframe* I always decompile with latest framework-res from CM9.
Contacts.apk decompiles with no errors then with no changes, it also compiles with no errors however when you push it to the phone, Phone.apk FC for upon even opening.
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Try it with compression level set to 0 .
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Hey wanam, how do you set compression to 0?
shayne77 said:
Funny, when I have made changes to PNGs in Contacts for the Phone/Dialer, the changes I make actually happen... are you sure they're in framework? (Wouldn't it look to "android" only if they werent in the apps apk?) According to your Screenshot#2, you have only changed the background? which is a single PNG in Contacts/Phone?
CM9 doesn't have twframe* I always decompile with latest framework-res from CM9.
Contacts.apk decompiles with no errors then with no changes, it also compiles with no errors however when you push it to the phone, Phone.apk FC for upon even opening.
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Hey wanam, how do you set compression to 0?
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Use Apk manager (with updated apktool & aapt).
I want to pull a themed dialer out of a ROM and push it into my system apps. Which files are the ones I need? SecPhone.apk, SecTelephonyProvider. apk, SecFactoryPhoeTest.apk, Phoneinfo.apk, PhoneErrService.apk, Phonesky.apk, etc. Thanks for the help.
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I wouldnt be surprised if you needed something else in addition to it but you'll probably wanna grab SecPhone.apk and you'll definately need SecContacts.apk. Contacts is where most of that stuff is I believe. Phonesky is the play store
Hey everyone, been runnin KingKang for quite some time and I'm having trouble topping off my inverted apps collection for it. It seems that every inverted MMS I have doesn't auto-split SMS for KingKang, or possibly any other AOKP ROMs out there. Specifically, it will say its composing a second message after passing the 160 character count, then it will attempt to send it as one large text and fail. I was wondering if anyone had a fix for this? Or maybe even an inverted MMS with the popup widget that will auto-split SMS. Thanks guys.
Edit: Yes I know the MMS.apk that comes with KingKang 3.2 has theme settings but it gets messed up in some parts when it's all black.
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EDIT: Turns out that my carrier has decided that it needs three apks for the dialer res, just found my other set of resources in another contacts.apk Bloody carriers!!!
Hopefully someone can help me here.
I've been trying to edit the images for a personal theme, but I've come across a bit of a stumbling block in my Contacts.apk
The res images for the dialer in the contacts seem to not be present. I've compared to other SecContacts.apk and apparently my DcmContacts.apk (I have a docomo Note 2) doesn't have a /drawable-sw359dp-xhdpi/ that contains the images for the dialer background and such. However the dialer does have the stock touchwiz images for the dialer background and top/action bar. I cannot for the life of me find these images in any of the directories in the res folder of either my DcmContacts.apk or SecPhone_DCM.apk, I checked there just in case.
Now I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction, where would the apk be pulling the res images from, would I need to edit smali or have missed something completely, another apk or the like??
If anyone can help, it would be much appreciated. Thanks