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[Q] How To Customize Folder Icons

First of all I apologize if there is already a thread for this. 30 minutes and about 200 google searches later I have not found what I'm looking for.
Basically what I want to do is create custom folder icons for the folders i have on one of my homescreens. For the sake of organization and saving room, I've grouped app shortcuts into folders, but all the folders look the same. I would like to change the folder icons. I downloaded Better Cut thinking that would help but maybe I'm just not doing it right. Any suggestions or tips will be greatly appreciated.
Let me know if screenshots are needed to further explain what exactly I'm trying to do.
Setup:
Fresh 3.3
AmonRA Recovery
King's #11

You using Launcherpro? That lets you change icons, if not you can try Desktop Visualizer. I just use Smart Shortcuts then create a shortcut to my shortcut lol

I've been using "Apps Organizer" by Fabio Collini. It includes icons and works really well. Instead of creating folders, it allows you to categorize your apps and then add the categories to your home screen as a widget. It also lets you "star" items, so that you can have only the apps you use most often in each category be listed first, or be the only things displayed.
There is a minor delay when you click on categories that have a lot in them, but I find this a great way to manage my apps.
Hope that helps.

Apps Organizer is doing exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the help.

[Q] Launcher Pro help needed.

Using Launcher Pro and trying to modify the dock background and icons with custom. This thing is pissing me off and I can't find the answer anywhere.
I know how to add these but the problem is this:
1) No one will ever give an answer on what file formats are compatible with LP....jpg, png, ico, etc
2) I have a lot of graphic files on the root of my sd card. However, when trying to pick a custom one from LP, it opens the crappy HTC gallery app every time (even though I have a better one supposedly set as default in settings) and it only shows some jpg wallpapers. No way to browse or try to find additional graphics that I know for a fact are compatible with LP. If I use my other picture program it shows all the graphics but no way to get them to LP.
How can something that should be so simple be such a pain in my rear? Any suggestions?

Here's what little I know from my own experimentation...
For the dock, you can use .png files for icons.
If you want to use custom icons for your applications, they seem to need to be in .jpg format.
The .png files I have on my phone show up as blank photos in the gallery app, you have to guess which one is which, but they are there.
No doubt somebody else has a better grasp of how to make this work smoothly, but that's what I've found.

I have both jpegs and png files and none of them are showing up in the gallery for some reason, not even as a blank file. Just the wallpapers and have no idea why.

Ok...nm....mounted my phone and removed some pictures, then didn't really do anything else and now they show up in gallery.
Buggy deal but seems fixed now.

[Q] Installing Icon Collection Set

As for "theme", I am happy with just the default.
What I want to do is just change the icons. I have seen a ton of icon sets that I love, but no clue how to bring them in.
I am running Syndicate with Genocide. Before when I was on stock, I was using File manager or something to "change" the icon. Basically it was putting a file manager widget there instead of the actual app icon.
Is there a tutorial for jsut changing icons? Or maybe an installer?

I reccomend for you to try this.
0.) Make a nandroid in case something goes wrong[Optional, reccomended]
1.) Open up the roms zip file(not extract) in 7zip onyour pc, and go to the system/app directory of the zip.
2.) Open up(not extract) the apk you want to edit in 7zip, and the icons are usually in the res/drawable-hdpi folder.
3.) Rename the image you want to be in there to match the one in the apk, and replace the old one with yours.
4.) Then back out, save, and do steps 2 & 3 for all of the apps in that folder who's icons you want to change.
5.) Flash that zip in cwm.
6.) Reboot
7.) Report if it worked. If it didn't, restore your nandroid.

Thanks!
I will try that this week.

Ok, I will stay subscribed to this thread so post here if you have any problems
Roll Tide

Ok, so I am starting to run through this, and I thought of something.
By editing that ROM, I am editing the default icons.
How do we do the apps I get from the market? These would not be in the ROM.
For example, Google Music, or Accuweather.
Can we edit these straight on the phone? Or are we getting more into themes?

Shot in the dark....
Could I take my nandroid backup, copy it, open it up and replace the icons there, then "restore" this backup?

lardo5150 said:
Shot in the dark....
Could I take my nandroid backup, copy it, open it up and replace the icons there, then "restore" this backup?
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I dont think so. To edit the ones you get from the market, you have to copy from data/app to your pc, edit the apps icon, then put the apk back in data/app, replacing the old one, and rebooting

zanderman112 said:
I dont think so. To edit the ones you get from the market, you have to copy from data/app to your pc, edit the apps icon, then put the apk back in data/app, replacing the old one, and rebooting
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I am going to try this tonight.
Just prepping for it though, I cant see the folders when going through the PC.
Do I need to download a file manager, and on the phone, copy the folder to the SD card, then to the PC, edit, and repeat in reverse?

Yes, you'll need es file explorer, and you'll have to turn on its root capabilities in it's setings. Then you can see the data/app folders contents. Curious though, did you try changing the default apps icons already that came with the rom?
Roll Tide

I am hoping to do that tonight.
I will let you know how it goes.
I am going to do that first, then I will tackle the added apps.

K, and remember to backup before just to be sure lol
Roll Tide

Ok, so tonight I tried some things...
1. ROM Package - I unzipped this and checked the majority of the apk files. I COULD NOT find the phone icon to save my life. none of the icons my epic has now with syndicate and genocide, I could not find. Any ideas where they might be? In the res folders, there are several combinations of the drawable folders.
2. I did a test of modding an app I downloaded. I took google music and the PSD template for the Illest Icon Set. I created an icon for google music. Now, I know the icon works, cause when I was using that other program to change the icon before I rooted (file organizer or something???) it worked. Under the res folder there were a TON of drawable folders, some were like v8, v9, v10, v11, etc. etc. There were a ton. So I went with the default drawable.hdpi folder. I found an ic_musiclauncher_normal.png and ic_musiclauncher_small.png. I changed the normal one, drug it back into my 7zip, yes to overwright, copied it back to my SD card (talking about the com.google.android.music-1.apk now), used ES to copy it from my SD card back into data\apps, yes to overright and rebooted.
When it rebooted, I got that default green and white android box and the application did not work.
I did a restore from my backup and everything is good now.
So...where do I need to look in the ROM to find the actual stinking icons?
And what am I doing wrong with the market apps?

lardo5150 said:
Ok, so tonight I tried some things...
1. ROM Package - I unzipped this and checked the majority of the apk files. I COULD NOT find the phone icon to save my life. none of the icons my epic has now with syndicate and genocide, I could not find. Any ideas where they might be? In the res folders, there are several combinations of the drawable folders.
2. I did a test of modding an app I downloaded. I took google music and the PSD template for the Illest Icon Set. I created an icon for google music. Now, I know the icon works, cause when I was using that other program to change the icon before I rooted (file organizer or something???) it worked. Under the res folder there were a TON of drawable folders, some were like v8, v9, v10, v11, etc. etc. There were a ton. So I went with the default drawable.hdpi folder. I found an ic_musiclauncher_normal.png and ic_musiclauncher_small.png. I changed the normal one, drug it back into my 7zip, yes to overwright, copied it back to my SD card (talking about the com.google.android.music-1.apk now), used ES to copy it from my SD card back into data\apps, yes to overright and rebooted.
When it rebooted, I got that default green and white android box and the application did not work.
I did a restore from my backup and everything is good now.
So...where do I need to look in the ROM to find the actual stinking icons?
And what am I doing wrong with the market apps?
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1.) Phone icon is in DialerTabActivity.apk. DialerTab is the actual dialer part you open up, and phone.apk is the "in call" stuff.
2)Different apps use different drawable folders for their icons, but they are usually in drawable-hdpi. they are sometimes named "icon.png" or "ic_launcher_appname.png." I think the new icon you want has to be the same pixel size as the one you're replacing.

zanderman112 said:
1.) Phone icon is in DialerTabActivity.apk. DialerTab is the actual dialer part you open up, and phone.apk is the "in call" stuff.
2)Different apps use different drawable folders for their icons, but they are usually in drawable-hdpi. they are sometimes named "icon.png" or "ic_launcher_appname.png." I think the new icon you want has to be the same pixel size as the one you're replacing.
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Yep, the one place I did not look. Thank you! I will try again tomorow, I have practice tonight. Stay tuned....
What is the reason for the same pixel? Is that set somewhere? The reason why I ask is people theme the phone out and make the icons anyway they want.
I gave you a thanks as well

1.) Yeah, two apks is confusing lol
2.) I'm not 100% sure about that, buut images can be resized to match the resolution of icons.
3.) THX4THX
Sent from my SPH-D700 using Tapatalk

Ok, so I replaced the phone icon with the one I wanted in the ROM's zip file.
Wiped the phone and installed the rom and kernel and my icon is there!
So success.
I did make the icon the same size in pixesl as well. 72x72

Nice! Glad it worked!
Btw, by doing this, you're dabbling your toes in themeing water lol.

Ya, I realized you are like Mr Miyagi, lol.
I do appreciate this, I would rather learn it then someone just give it to me.
Although, like the issue I had before cause of all the apk's, I could use some help with locating a few items....please
Here is what I need to find...
facebook
text messaging
calendar
settings
yahoo mail (is that standard?)
youtube
market
maps
voicemail
email
movies
I am going to start looking here in a bit (wife is making me watch jersey shore with her )
The rest of the icons I have are for google music, dolphin, etc....so I need to figure that out and why it bombed out on me before, I am assuming like you said the pixels were wrong.
screw it, I am going to try and tackle the status bar as well.

lardo5150 said:
Ya, I realized you are like Mr Miyagi, lol.
I do appreciate this, I would rather learn it then someone just give it to me.
Although, like the issue I had before cause of all the apk's, I could use some help with locating a few items....please
Here is what I need to find...
facebook
text messaging
calendar
settings
yahoo mail (is that standard?)
youtube
market
maps
voicemail
email
movies
I am going to start looking here in a bit (wife is making me watch jersey shore with her )
The rest of the icons I have are for google music, dolphin, etc....so I need to figure that out and why it bombed out on me before, I am assuming like you said the pixels were wrong.
screw it, I am going to try and tackle the status bar as well.
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Status bar itself is in framework-res.apk/res/drawable-hdpi/statusbar_background.9.png, so if you don't know how to edit .9.png's, you'll have to find a statusbar you like.
The other parts of the notifiation drawer start with status_bar_ and are .9.pngs as well.
But some parts of the notification drawer are in twframework-res.apk/res/drawable-hdpi/
Sent from my SPH-D700 using Tapatalk

Cool, thanks.
Going after them now!

[Q] How To add pictures to the "Wallpaper Gallery" menu

Does anyone know to add pictures to the "Wallpaper Gallery menu"???? I use the stock ROM rooted which only comes with only about 4 or 5 wallpapers embedded into the Wallpaper Gallery menu however I decompiled the TwWallpaperChooser.apk and found there's waaaay more wallpapers than what the OS actually allows us to choose from... In the end I would like to have all the wallpapers shown under the Wallpaper Gallery menu. Can anyone help with this? Anyone??

I went to sys/apps/twwallpaper picker.
Extracted all.sent as email to myself.
Downloaded.
Went to gallery and then applied wallpaper.
Sent from my SGH-T989 using XDA

you have to decompile the twwallpaper.apk
go into res/values and open up arrays and in there you will see picture names...add the ones from in the drawable-hdpi folder that are not present in the arrays

TY for the help. I was wondering the same thing myself. Is this also how to change the default wall paper when preparing a custom rom?

Master&Slave™ said:
you have to decompile the twwallpaper.apk
go into res/values and open up arrays and in there you will see picture names...add the ones from in the drawable-hdpi folder that are not present in the arrays
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Res/value/arrays?? no such directory exists. Let's rewind a little bit, which APK needs to be decompiled?? There are about 33 wallpapers sitting in TwWallpaperChooser.apk. They came pre-installed to the following directory:
TwWallpaperChooser\res\drawable-hdpi ...
however only 4 or 5 only appear and the rest do not show up under the Wallpaper Gallery menu. How can I get all 33 wallpapers visible when I access my Wallpaper Gallery menu?? If we are referring to the same APK that you suggested earlier, then I can assure you there no Res/value/arrays directory listed after decompiling. Any suggestions anyone??

Can one see these "hidden" pics on the default manufacturer's ROM?
Sent from my SGH-T989 using XDA

sippinalizay said:
Res/value/arrays?? no such directory exists. Let's rewind a little bit, which APK needs to be decompiled?? There are about 33 wallpapers sitting in TwWallpaperChooser.apk. They came pre-installed to the following directory:
TwWallpaperChooser\res\drawable-hdpi ...
however only 4 or 5 only appear and the rest do not show up under the Wallpaper Gallery menu. How can I get all 33 wallpapers visible when I access my Wallpaper Gallery menu?? If we are referring to the same APK that you suggested earlier, then I can assure you there no Res/value/arrays directory listed after decompiling. Any suggestions anyone??
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First thing i told you to do was decompile.
U must be extracting because Im looking at it right now....
M&S

AlchemistAndroid said:
TY for the help. I was wondering the same thing myself. Is this also how to change the default wall paper when preparing a custom rom?
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The default wallpaper is in the the framework/res/drawable-hdpi folder
"Default_wallpaper"
M&S

Master&Slave™ said:
First thing i told you to do was decompile.
U must be extracting because Im looking at it right now....
M&S
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My mistake, man you are good. It worked! Good job man.

sippinalizay said:
My mistake, man you are good. It worked! Good job man.
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Its cool, we all make them including myself numerous times. I tried that on a whim one day and i was like holy ****!
M&S

Ummm , sounds like you guys are making this overly complicated ......
Wallpaper, Gallery, is your phones gallery, not the TWwallpapers ....
If you are asking how to add more pictures to Wallpaper>Gallery, just create a folder on your phone, call it wallpapers or whatever else you want, and copy the 960x800 wallpapers to it and "rescan media" using an app from the market or reboot ...
Then open up Wallpaper>Gallery, and choose your wallpaper folder .....
Maybe I read your first post wrong but you did ask about Wallpaper Gallery not the TW wallpapers ....

@Watcher64 - I believe the reason behind this is when installing custom ROM, you would like to have the wallpapers already present when it is installed and not worry about downloading a bunch or transferring them from your computer. This is why I am editing/adding to mine.
While it is located under "Wallpaper gallery" on the phone, the actual apk is TwWallpaperChooser.apk in system\app
......
The list of the wallpapers in the array.xml file was not located in \res\values, rather \res\values-hdpi in my ROM.
Thanks sippinalizay and M&S for helping sorting it all out!

Using custom.xml?
I recently stumble myself on this same question and the answers I found on the Internet either didn't properly apply to my phone ROM or they were not much feasible (like tampering with the system resources files).
But I observed something interesting... a custom vendor wallpaper image added to the default wallpaper gallery; I tried to find the trace back to the source files that made it possible that addition and I found this:
/system/csc/custom.xml
Code:
<Display>
<NbWallpaper>1</NbWallpaper>
<Wallpaper src="/Customer/XTE/Wallpaper/Sun 480 x 320.jpg" width="480" height="320">
<Position>1</Position>
<FileType>JPG</FileType>
</Wallpaper>
</Display>
Modify that at your will and add pictures to the Wallpaper Gallery in a simple way.
Note about the attached pic: the 3rd wallpaper is a custom one that I added by injecting it directly to the TwWallpaperChooser.apk with same name of a previous one picture, actually replacing it.

How can I decompile an APK file?

[Q] Trying to match Yahoo Weather exactly

All,
I've been spending a bunch of time trying to get my icons to match Yahoo (using yahoo for my data as well). Ultimately I want my widget to open yahoo weather with certain clicks and I just want everything to be cohesive in look.
So far, I was able to extract all the icons from the yahoo weather apk, and i generally have them working. However, I've noticed that Yahoo actually has many more than 16 weather types. This seems to be causing me all sorts of inconsistencies in terms of what is shown on my widget versus what is shown in the app, specifically in future forecasts for the days ahead. For example, the app shows the next 6 days as scattered thunderstorms (its florida after all). But, my widget is showing them all as full thunderstorms (different icon than the app). I can somewhat "fix" this by mapping them to scattered, but that would just break the ones who truly should be mapped to thunderstorms.
The other problem I'm having is that the future days (once its past sunset) are all changing to nightime icons instead of being locked to day versions (as it is in the app).
Anyone have experience in trying to get everything consistent? Whats the best way to address it? And, is it possible to map the full list of Yahoo data instead of just 16? Perhaps I just screwed something up in my config file when i tried it? The yahoo developer page has a list of all of them, though I have no way to tell if that's actually 100% up to date either? Looks like it was posted in 2011. How can I make the day/night versions ONLY apply to my current weather, and not future? Maybe build 2 different sets of the same icons and exclude night? Seems like a lot of work, so wondering if anyone has tackled something similar.
Thanks,

Also, i assume somewhere zooper is taking the 48 Yahoo weather conditions and mapping that down to just 16? Where / how is that done?

g8rfn said:
All,
I've been spending a bunch of time trying to get my icons to match Yahoo (using yahoo for my data as well). Ultimately I want my widget to open yahoo weather with certain clicks and I just want everything to be cohesive in look.
So far, I was able to extract all the icons from the yahoo weather apk, and i generally have them working. However, I've noticed that Yahoo actually has many more than 16 weather types. This seems to be causing me all sorts of inconsistencies in terms of what is shown on my widget versus what is shown in the app, specifically in future forecasts for the days ahead. For example, the app shows the next 6 days as scattered thunderstorms (its florida after all). But, my widget is showing them all as full thunderstorms (different icon than the app). I can somewhat "fix" this by mapping them to scattered, but that would just break the ones who truly should be mapped to thunderstorms.
The other problem I'm having is that the future days (once its past sunset) are all changing to nightime icons instead of being locked to day versions (as it is in the app).
Anyone have experience in trying to get everything consistent? Whats the best way to address it? And, is it possible to map the full list of Yahoo data instead of just 16? Perhaps I just screwed something up in my config file when i tried it? The yahoo developer page has a list of all of them, though I have no way to tell if that's actually 100% up to date either? Looks like it was posted in 2011. How can I make the day/night versions ONLY apply to my current weather, and not future? Maybe build 2 different sets of the same icons and exclude night? Seems like a lot of work, so wondering if anyone has tackled something similar.
Thanks,
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You will not be able to match Yahoo's weather states exactly with Zooper. As you already figured out, Zooper only knows 16 weather states, which is done to unify the states from different weather data providers to a single interface. The external states are mapped internally to these internal ones and this process can not be influenced from the user side.
As to your second question about the day/night icons: download my weather icon set here and check the included XML. It's configured to only show day/night icons for the current weather option and not the forecast variants. You should be able to transfer this to your set quite easily

Thanks!

Interesting. I didn't know zooper converted the 48 yahoo weathers to 16. What are those 16? I'm trying to do something similar to the OP but with bitmaps.

TheStretchedElf said:
Interesting. I didn't know zooper converted the 48 yahoo weathers to 16. What are those 16? I'm trying to do something similar to the OP but with bitmaps.
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To answer my own question, and assuming this link is up to date, the 16 weather conditions of zooper are here: http://www.zooper.org/wp/archives/1155

kwerdenker said:
As to your second question about the day/night icons: download my weather icon set here and check the included XML. It's configured to only show day/night icons for the current weather option and not the forecast variants. You should be able to transfer this to your set quite easily
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I am facing the same problem regarding day/night icons. I downloaded your config.xml and tried to modify my existing xml based on the info in your xml, but it seems I'm doing something wrong because when I open Zooper on my phone the app is not recognizing the modified xml.
I am attaching the icon set (including the original xml) without any modification. I would appreciate if you let me know exactly what to modify in the xml.
Thanks

jakou said:
I am facing the same problem regarding day/night icons. I downloaded your config.xml and tried to modify my existing xml based on the info in your xml, but it seems I'm doing something wrong because when I open Zooper on my phone the app is not recognizing the modified xml.
I am attaching the icon set (including the original xml) without any modification. I would appreciate if you let me know exactly what to modify in the xml.
Thanks
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I rather prefere if you upload your edited version so I can check it for errors and tell you what you did wrong. That way you know what to do when the next icon pack comes around

kwerdenker said:
I rather prefere if you upload your edited version so I can check it for errors and tell you what you did wrong. That way you know what to do when the next icon pack comes around
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Here's the modified xml.