Okay I just opened up a zipped theme and modified some of the png files inside of it. How do I put those files back into the zip?? I think I extracted them out and then edited them. Now when I try to put them back its not as easy as just copy and pasting. Could someone please help me?
Open the original zip file in the 7zip file manager, navigate to the folder you want to copy the new/modified file into, then drag and drop the modified files from the windows explorer window into that folder in the file manager. If there is already a file with the same name, it will overwrite the original file with the new file.
You cannot modify a .9 this way. You would hand to re do the patches in draw9 then run them threw eclipse
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Hi everyone. I'm not sure if this was already posted. If it was then tell me so I can contact moderator and remove this thread.
Yesterday I flashed MIUI first time and while trying themes I noticed that some words are in chinese.
So I will tell you how to change your lockscreen (look at the attachments)
1. Download lockscreen theme.
2. Connent your phone to your computer
3. Open Internal SD > MIUI > theme > theme you want to edit
4. Copy file to desktop
5. Use 7-zip to extract mtz file
6. Now you can delete mtz file
7. Open your theme folder (that was extracted in step 5) and choose lockscreen file.
8. Now extract lockscreen file with 7-zip (if you can add .zip after lockscreen so it should look like lockscreen.zip)
9. Open manifest.xml with notepad++ and edit what you need. I had to change this http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/18/15447738.png/
10. Now save manifest.xml
11. Now open lockscreen file with 7-zip (step 7) and delete file manifest.xml
12. Drag and drop edited manifest.xml to 7-zip window like this: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/534/dragk.png/
13. Now delete file that you extracted in step 8
14. Now select files and choose add to archive (with WinRAR) mark ZIP as archive format when prompted AND RENAME .zip TO .mtz http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/26/compress.png/
15. Save it and copy it to phone and install via file manager.
If you have questions post it below.
Any chance of permanently changing chinese to English characters?
Can't extract lockscreen file. See screen shot. Now what?
pcpimpin said:
Can't extract lockscreen file. See screen shot. Now what?
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Never Mind I figured it out Just browsed to the file using windows explorer and copy and pasted manifest.xml file... All good!
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Dude I just want to say thanks for this info!!! I found all the chinese txt and used google translate and replaced the txt with english!!! Worked great!!! Now I have about 10 themes I need to do ...lol
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once i save the manifest file into the lockscreen.zip file, is it suppose to stay .zip? because once i archive the files that were extracted from the original theme. and i go back to apply the theme. it gives me a totally different lockscreen.
the theme that im working with is Ice Cream MIUI_(805477.1).mtz and the problem that i have is that it won't show the weather which i don't care to see in my lockscreen (it would b nice) but the issue that i have is that it just gives me a line full of characters that i can't make out. they're not Chinese i believe they're a bunch up English letter overlapping each other.
has n e one come across this problem with this particular theme?
as soon as i can post a picture up i'll do so....having hit that 8 post yet...=\
Excellent! got it to work, now just tweaking it!
Edit:
Working on changing the slider to say "slide to unlock" next
PLEASE, can you explain me how to drag and drop manifest.xml in the folder advance?
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Hi everyone. I'm not sure if this was already posted. If it was then tell me so I can contact moderator and remove this thread.
Yesterday I flashed MIUI first time and while trying themes I noticed that some words are in chinese.
So I will tell you how to change your lockscreen (look at the attachments)
1. Download lockscreen theme.
2. Connent your phone to your computer
3. Open Internal SD > MIUI > theme > theme you want to edit
4. Copy file to desktop
5. Use 7-zip to extract mtz file
6. Now you can delete mtz file
7. Open your theme folder (that was extracted in step 5) and choose lockscreen file.
8. Now extract lockscreen file with 7-zip (if you can add .zip after lockscreen so it should look like lockscreen.zip)
9. Open manifest.xml with notepad++ and edit what you need. I had to change this http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/18/15447738.png/
10. Now save manifest.xml
11. Now open lockscreen file with 7-zip (step 7) and delete file manifest.xml
12. Drag and drop edited manifest.xml to 7-zip window like this: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/534/dragk.png/
13. Now delete file that you extracted in step 8
14. Now select files and choose add to archive (with WinRAR) mark ZIP as archive format when prompted AND RENAME .zip TO .mtz http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/26/compress.png/
15. Save it and copy it to phone and install via file manager.
If you have questions post it below.
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At step 11:Now open lockscreen file with 7-zip (step
7) and delete file manifest.xml, i can't delete manifest. xml. Why?
MIUI 3.8.2
It seems that in MIUI the folder for themes has changed. I searched in the MIUI folder but could not find it anywhere - there seem to be only settings for the actual theme in "theme" subfolder. I installed some themes manually (from SD card), but they got moved from install folder to somewhere I really don't know. With AndroZip I found nothing, searching the whole internal (and even external) sdcard.
Is there any possibility to get rid of the chinese letters in MIUI 3.8.2?
This is waayyyy more complicated than it needs to be, just open the mtz with the MIUI Theme Editor and edit the manifest taking all the Chinese out of the lockscreen and generate the mtz again.
Sent from my i747 on MIUI V5
SMN23 said:
This is waayyyy more complicated than it needs to be, just open the mtz with the MIUI Theme Editor and edit the manifest taking all the Chinese out of the lockscreen and generate the mtz again.
Sent from my i747 on MIUI V5
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So no chance to remove it in already installed themes or themes from the MIUI themes app, I guess.
Anyway, thanks a lot for your help!
Zwulf said:
So no chance to remove it in already installed themes or themes from the MIUI themes app, I guess.
Anyway, thanks a lot for your help!
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Go to /data/system/theme and pull the file named lockscreen from there, that's the currently in use lockscreen you're using. Put that file on your PC and extract it with 7zip, click "extract to lockscreen-\" then delete the ~ from the folder name. Use the MIUI Theme Editor and make a new theme and put that extracted folder in the theme, make sure the folder is called "lockscreen" and then open that folder, go into the advance folder and edit the manifest. Then in the MIUI Theme Editor click generate, put the new generated mtz on your phone and install it, profit!
complicated
this is really complicated , hard to get it for mean , hope have some simplifed methods
chaselxm said:
this is really complicated , hard to get it for mean , hope have some simplifed methods
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Read my posts before yours, the OP's method is much more complicated than it needs to be.
Sent from my i747 on MIUI V5
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themate1987 said:
Hi everyone. I'm not sure if this was already posted. If it was then tell me so I can contact moderator and remove this thread.
Yesterday I flashed MIUI first time and while trying themes I noticed that some words are in chinese.
So I will tell you how to change your lockscreen (look at the attachments)
1. Download lockscreen theme.
2. Connent your phone to your computer
3. Open Internal SD > MIUI > theme > theme you want to edit
4. Copy file to desktop
5. Use 7-zip to extract mtz file
6. Now you can delete mtz file
7. Open your theme folder (that was extracted in step 5) and choose lockscreen file.
8. Now extract lockscreen file with 7-zip (if you can add .zip after lockscreen so it should look like lockscreen.zip)
9. Open manifest.xml with notepad++ and edit what you need. I had to change this
10. Now save manifest.xml
11. Now open lockscreen file with 7-zip (step 7) and delete file manifest.xml
12. Drag and drop edited manifest.xml to 7-zip window like this:
13. Now delete file that you extracted in step 8
14. Now select files and choose add to archive (with WinRAR) mark ZIP as archive format when prompted AND RENAME .zip TO .mtz
15. Save it and copy it to phone and install via file manager.
If you have questions post it below.
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:crying::crying: bro i found theme folder is empty..while i have 20 themes
The lazy man’s guide to theming.
I get requests all the time to make simple changes to my themes that anyone with a computer can do. So I put together this quick guide on how to theme the easy way. This is how I do most of my themes minus any xml edits or battery mods. This guide is for changing images only without having to decompile and recompile the entire apk file with apktool or apk manager. Great for when you just want to make a few changes to your existing setup.
What you will need.
~ 7zip use Google search it’s easy to find
~ image editor Gimp is great and free you can Google it also. I use Fireworks and Photoshop depending on what I am trying to do.
~ Draw9Suite. Created by tommytomatoe/kakomalo Thread found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1272513
Download here: http://www.4shared.com/zip/TaDGMjde/9patchPngSuite.html
Unzip and place contents in folder, I have mine on my desktop.
~ An existing rom or theme to modify.
With just these tools you can do a lot.
Once you have 7zip and 9patchPngSuite on your system you will need to download the rom, or already existing theme for the rom you are on so you can make the changes you want to it.
Download the rom/theme you want to make changes to and use 7zip to unpack the rom/theme you downloaded, do this by right clicking on the zip file and chose open with 7zip. Inside you will find lots of folders, the ones you are looking for will be in system/app (for apps) or system/framework (for framework files). Extract the apk’s by just dragging them out of the 7zip window, to a folder on your desktop.
Inside the folder you extracted the apk’s to create a folder for each apk’s you extracted. Now you will want to extract the folder drawable-hdpi from the res folder of each apk to its associated folder, do this with 7zip also the same way you extracted the apk file. Once the drawable-hdpi folders are extracted you will see the images inside that you can modify.
At this point I create another folder inside each of the specific apk folders and name it .9 images and I copy and paste all the .9 images I want to change into that folder (these are for reference). I then copy all of those images into the compiled folder of 9patchPngSuite. And chose option 1 to decompile them. Now look in the decompiled folder and you can now take those images and change anything inside the black lines and dots you will see on the outside edge. If you feel like it you can also create your own .9 file with your own image by choosing option 2, this will open up draw9patch. Maser&Slave made a great tutorial on this so I won’t go into it. Edit your images, but be careful if the image displays words on it (like with popup_center_dark.9 )and it has a dark background it should remain dark so the word will still be readable, and vice versa if the image has a light background it most likely will have a dark font displayed on it that will be difficult to read if you make the image a dark color. Once all your images are edited use option 3 to recompile them, now in the output folder you will find your recompiled images that you can put back into your drawable-hdpi folder. Edit any other images you want just be careful with the pixel size if an image is 70X70 and you make it 140X140 it could cause some problems, some you can change others you can’t, it’s a lot of trial and error. Once all edits are finished put them all back in the drawable-hdpi folder you extracted from the apk, use 7zip to open the apk again, navigate to the res folder and delete the existing drawable-hdpi folder and drop the one you made the changes to into it, use the back arrow in the 7zip window and it will zip it back up and you can push the apk or flash it to test if your images came out the way you wanted them to. This will work with any image you chose to edit. You can also use this method add images from other themes you like to modify your theme to the way you want it. Just copy and paste the images you want to change into the drawabel-hdpi folder of the theme you are creating.
Brief list of what each apk controls, I am still new to ICS so if anyone knows more info please post.
Framework-res.apk
This will contain most of the images you will want to make changes to. Including check boxes, popup windows, menus, tabs, general status bar images, some lockscreen clocks, and a lot more. You will recognize them as you scroll through them. Some are hard to recognize like activity_tite_bar.9 and dark_header.9 because they are small, it will take some practice and trial and error to get the look you want.
Twframework-res.apk
This contains very little in ICS it still controls the tab backgrounds for a lot of apps but that is all I have found so far.
Systemui.apk
This apk contains most of the files for your dropdown and status bar, like signal bars, 3g 4g icons, wifi strength icons ,dropdown background and more. in ICS it also contains the battery images.
Ik95-res.apk and lidroid-res.apk
These apks contain the toggle images and background In the dropdown i.e. wifi toggle, airplane mode toggle etc. for the 14 ad 15 toggle mods.
Here is a standard flashable zip file you can put your modified apk files in and flash with CWM, open with 7zip and put your apk file in the corresponding folder in the flashable zip if you pulled it from framework put it back in the system/framework folder, if you pulled it from app put it in system/app folder in the flashable zip. Then flash like any other theme.
Flashable zip : http://www.4shared.com/zip/cmn3J1yd/My_flash.html
included below is a word doc of this tutorial.
future additions ....
Thanks for the guide, chief!
Can anybody tell me ? I need to make one for Xperia Pro with physical QWERTY (mk16i)
Google "flashable zip template" and download it
Don't extract it..open it with winrar..push your files in system/ folders
Apps to /app
Framework files to /framework
etc
[optional]Open META-INF folder go to /com/google/android, open updater-script via Notepad++ and here you can add your own text which will be shown during flashing
Close it and flash
Sent from your computer
So Android compresses the wallpaper for some reason, to enjoy the full quality do the following:
1. Get a ROOT file explorer (such as MiX, Zarchiver, etc...)
2. Go to [data/system/users/0]
3. You can see a file named "wallpaper" with no extension, that's your wallpaper
4. Cut it somewhere away in your storage
5. Take the image you want to set as wallpaper and rename it to "wallpaper" (without extension) just like the one we took away
6. Now paste it in the same directory [data/system/users/0]
Tips:
-To see change between wallpapers just restart systemUI, if you don't have an option to do that then just normally restart device
-For Lockscreen, you can do the same but with "wallpaper_lock" file located at the same directory "[data/system/users/0]
-An extension is the thing in the filename after the last dot, like if it's "My_Wallpaper.png" then the extension is PNG and you gotta rename it to wallpaper (without the PNG thingy)
-[data/system/users/0] is a directory, a directory is the location of the file, that "data" folder is located in the root of the phone
Note:
I hope this is a noob-friendly guide cuz in that case it will be friendly to me, That's all, feel free to comment if I said something wrong.
Tested on:
Samsung Galaxy A105F running Android 12.1L where the photo format was PNG