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Themeing cm9.

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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ÜBER™ said:
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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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!

D1rk said:
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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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.

timmetal6669 said:
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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bimmerman7 said:
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.

Rom toolboxpro help.

Trying to restore icon backup on my Epic, tried changing 3g icon in notifications bar, before change RTP made a backup in SD card, called icon-change-backups. How do I apply this backup to undo the change I made to the notification bar?
In the b/u folder there is /com.android.systemui /. Do I just find this file in system and replace it with the backup file?
Any input will be greatly appreciated and thanked.
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PanchoPlanet said:
Trying to restore icon backup on my Epic, tried changing 3g icon in notifications bar, before change RTP made a backup in SD card, called icon-change-backups. How do I apply this backup to undo the change I made to the notification bar?
In the b/u folder there is /com.android.systemui /. Do I just find this file in system and replace it with the backup file?
Any input will be greatly appreciated and thanked.
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Man, that would make sense to me. Changing your status bar icons changes your systemui.apk, correct? So I would think that if you took the backup systemui that rtp made(which should be your original set up), and drag it into your system/app, replacing the systemui.apk that's in there, reboot, you should be good to go. I'd do a back up and give it a shot. I've played around with swapping systemui's and the worst thing that happens is there's nothing at the top, or you get the blah blah had stopped unexpectedly message. Should be golden though man. Good luck, let me know how it goes! :thumbup:
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That's what I was figuring but wasn't sure, don't know much about how RTB works but do know that a lot of features don't work well.
The icon replacement option works but needs updating with more current Jb style icons and features.
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PanchoPlanet said:
That's what I was figuring but wasn't sure, don't know much about how RTB works but do know that a lot of features don't work well.
The icon replacement option works but needs updating with more current Jb style icons and features.
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Yeah, I played around with the battery stuff before. Took me awhile before I found a 1% that would stick. Can you go into the backup and see the pngs to see if they match the icon you had?
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PanchoPlanet said:
That's what I was figuring but wasn't sure, don't know much about how RTB works but do know that a lot of features don't work well.
The icon replacement option works but needs updating with more current Jb style icons and features.
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Just push systemui.apk to /system/app and set permissions to rw-r--r-- and reboot.
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-EViL-KoNCEPTz- said:
Just push systemui.apk to /system/app and set permissions to rw-r--r-- and reboot.
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LOL EK says it so much more eloquently than me . So yeah, what he said. :thumbup::beer:
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Just push systemui.apk to /system/app and set permissions to rw-r--r-- and reboot.
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That's what I did, its ok now. And the icon I replaced was working but the arrow action while communicating was in the wrong place, RTB theme was gb style with arrows on top, Jb style has the arrows below, I got a pre-install toast before i ok it and it told me that not all images where matching.
Was just trying to get some more complete blue theming to mach TD's AIO mod.
Thanks guys.
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If you want the aosp blue look then do this. Pull your systemui.apk out to your PC and rename it systemui.zip then right click it and open as archive with 7zip. Now do the same with an aosp systemui.apk and make sure the icon names are the same, rename them if you have too. Now copy all the icon images from the aosp systemui into your systemui and click ok to copy and replace the files. Now rename your systemui from .zip back to .apk and copy it to your sdcard, then backup your rom in recovery and boot back in to the OS, push the new systemui.apk you just modified to /system/app set permissions, reboot and profit.
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Thanks EViL, that's exactly what i was trying to achieve, this info is very helpful. Will work on it tomorrow.
Will let you know how it comes out. :thumbup:
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PanchoPlanet said:
Thanks EViL, that's exactly what i was trying to achieve, this info is very helpful. Will work on it tomorrow.
Will let you know how it comes out. :thumbup:
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You'll only need to do the hdpi icons in the res/layout folder if you're not changing dpi. As long as you want to keep the dpi at stock 240 then hdpi are the only icons used. If you wanna try out other dpi's then swap em all out. Anythinf below 190 will start using mdpi anything over 250 or 260 will use xhdpi
It may take a little while if the icons all need to be renamed cuz theres alot of them. If you get lucky then the names will match and the images will be different. Typically the icon names are the same but occasionally they aren't depending on the device and rom you're on. I actually may have all the icons renamed for my note 2 already if the names are different from aosp on the et4g but the same sec names as the note 2s TWiz
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I hear jellyverse has the icons I need. Will d/l a copy and extricate then.
Thanks.
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You'll only need to do the hdpi icons in the res/layout folder if you're not changing dpi. As long as you want to keep the dpi at stock 240 then hdpi are the only icons used. If you wanna try out other dpi's then swap em all out. Anythinf below 190 will start using mdpi anything over 250 or 260 will use xhdpi
It may take a little while if the icons all need to be renamed cuz theres alot of them. If you get lucky then the names will match and the images will be different. Typically the icon names are the same but occasionally they aren't depending on the device and rom you're on. I actually may have all the icons renamed for my note 2 already if the names are different from aosp on the et4g but the same sec names as the note 2s TWiz
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You are sooo money EK. I'm about to start theming my build today, and that explanation was superb. Thanks a lot!
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Just as a side note, I could had just swap out the res folder.
I think this folder has all the images that pertain to the notification bar and panel.
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PanchoPlanet said:
Just as a side note, I could had just swap out the res folder.
I think this folder has all the images that pertain to the notification bar and panel.
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Exactly the same? ? Wow...lucky! I'm trying to figure out how to view the png in 7zip while the file is open as an archive.
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MyColorScreen

Idk if everyone already know about this but I love it check it out if you dont know about it. There is a lot of cool widgets, lock screens, tutorials, and home screens.
http://mycolorscreen.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/mycolorscreen

get yer creativity on peoples!

Download buzz launcher from the play store. Is a lot easier and u get more options
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but where's the fun in that? ;p jk, it is a pretty solid and interesting launcher. and swapping setups in a click is a great idea, but putting in a little work and making a screen that is nothing like anyone elses is very satisfying as well.
not sure what you mean by "you get more options" ? more than the MyColorscreen website?

Nothing has more options than my brain
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yeah Buzz Launcher is cool but you might as well just do it yourself with the fact that most designs need the UCCW files

Help.... Secsettings

I completely hate asking for help and usually just figure it on my own because that's the best way to learn, and have done this before with other phones but that method just doesn't work for me on the s4.
So I've added my own shortcuts to the secsettings from Alpha rom, such as cloud storage (copy, Dropbox, drive), screen recording, pc connections (unified remote, team viewer), IR remote, etc etc and have everything how I want it.... Except one thing. I can not for the life of me change the background to a 50-75% transparent image.
So far I've changed the png, the theme in styles, color codes in colors, color codes in styles, and settings main xml, default theme lines in the Frameworks styles, changed the system background png, and a few other things I can't remember. But none give me what I want. When I first open the settings for a split second I see the transparent image I added but then it's soon covered with a black background.
So does anybody know how or where to edit for a transparent image to be the background of the sec settings?
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

Bummer nobody?

Maybe you should ask in the section called q&a, help & troubleshooting
Just a thought?
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Spastic909 said:
Maybe you should ask in the section called q&a, help & troubleshooting
Just a thought?
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Exactly
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Spastic909 said:
Maybe you should ask in the section called q&a, help & troubleshooting
Just a thought?
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Well let's see.
Apk= application package
Which huh... application
And theme'n the apk aka application in question .... Holy **** theme and application. Which holy **** again we're in. It's probably the Oh I don't know the most appropriate forum for it. Which holy **** times 3 has a bunch of themers in it. Huh who the hell knew.
But thanks XDA mom for the suggestion. You were of much help.

What does this xml show?
SecSettings / SecSettings / res / values / styles.xml

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What does this xml show?
SecSettings / SecSettings / res / values / styles.xml
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Has the device themes in it, which I messed with by changing device theme to Device.Light which changes it to a light theme (white background/black letters). On other phones you were able to change it to Device.Transparent or Device.Transparentcy but those 2 error out on recompile.
Having a solid image is no issue by swapping out a png but using a transparent don't work because there's still a background being displayed behind it.

Adam0524 said:
Has the device themes in it, which I messed with by changing device theme to Device.Light which changes it to a light theme (white background/black letters). On other phones you were able to change it to Device.Transparent or Device.Transparentcy but those 2 error out on recompile.
Having a solid image is no issue by swapping out a png but using a transparent don't work because there's still a background being displayed behind it.
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Right, well.. check this out:
okay, so this is how i was able to change the background of stuff like SecSettings.apk. ***warning, because of the way Samsung coded stuff, this will change the background of a lot of stock app stuff, ie MMS, Clock, etc.
you need to decompile your framework-res.apk
once this is done, nav to res\values\drawables.xml
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<item type="drawable" name="screen_background_dark">#ff000000</item>
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Adam0524 said:
Well let's see.
Apk= application package
Which huh... application
And theme'n the apk aka application in question .... Holy **** theme and application. Which holy **** again we're in. It's probably the Oh I don't know the most appropriate forum for it. Which holy **** times 3 has a bunch of themers in it. Huh who the hell knew.
But thanks XDA mom for the suggestion. You were of much help.
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You're the one complaining about not getting any replies. And before you go flipping out you should really read the rules. This sub topic is for releasing apps you've written or sharing apps specific to the s4. If you need help with something, that goes in the q&a , hence you have a question and are looking for an answer.
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elesbb said:
You're the one complaining about not getting any replies. And before you go flipping out you should really read the rules. This sub topic is for releasing apps you've written or sharing apps specific to the s4. If you need help with something, that goes in the q&a , hence you have a question and are looking for an answer.
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One I wasn't complaining.
Two if that's the case, you have some mall cop duties to jump on in some threads asking for Crap like live wallpapers and etc.
Three if you have an issue with where my thread is, I really don't give a Crap. Use the report button.

Adam0524 said:
One I wasn't complaining.
Two if that's the case, you have some mall cop duties to jump on in some threads asking for Crap like live wallpapers and etc.
Three if you have an issue with where my thread is, I really don't give a Crap. Use the report button.
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Lol attitudes like that are a great way to get help!
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Cut it out you two before you both get banned, lol.
Just carry on.

elesbb said:
Lol attitudes like that are a great way to get help!
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Only have an attitude towards people who try to play forum rent-a-cops who post useless Crap to what somebody is asking. Like I said kid, if you have an issue or your panties are in a wad of where my or any body's thread is located feel free to use the report button.
Notice no attitude to the one actually helpful guy that didn't play forum rent-a-cop? Yeah.