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Customizing HTC Home plugin?

I would like to know if it's possible to customize the HTC Home plugin (as found in the full Indigo ROM for example), specifically:
1. Change the typeface (font) on the clock, the digital clock is kinda boring.
2. Make the Weather section poll a different weather service than accuweather, I find their values consistently off for my area.
3. Use colour icons for the 5 tabs instead of the Touch-styled grey ones.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

try this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=319308

Igor01 said:
I would like to know if it's possible to customize the HTC Home plugin (as found in the full Indigo ROM for example), specifically:
1. Change the typeface (font) on the clock, the digital clock is kinda boring.
2. Make the Weather section poll a different weather service than accuweather, I find their values consistently off for my area.
3. Use colour icons for the 5 tabs instead of the Touch-styled grey ones.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
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Go there : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=319308&highlight=HTC+Home+Customizer (the link for the zip file is in the bottom of the first post)
To use the app, extract the zip file anywhere on your device (main memory, storage card) and run the homecust.exe.

Many thanks, guys!

[REQ] Manila Theme Help

I'm creating my own "minimal" theme but I'm stuck on a couple of things and no matter how hard I've looked through the mode9 & lua files I can not find the parts I'm looking for..
As you'll see from the Calendar page, I can change most of the colors I need, but the one that is bugging me is the top page description which does not change regardless of the settings I alter.
Also, for the clock, does anyone have digital clock tabs with coloured notifications so that when I change the transparency they don't dissapear? I'm not a very good artist
If someone could point me in the right direction regarding the mode9 & lua files that I'll need to change what I want to change it would be appreaciated.

Trixster101 said:
I'm creating my own "minimal" theme but I'm stuck on a couple of things and no matter how hard I've looked through the mode9 & lua files I can not find the parts I'm looking for..
As you'll see from the Calendar page, I can change most of the colors I need, but the one that is bugging me is the top page description which does not change regardless of the settings I alter.
Also, for the clock, does anyone have digital clock tabs with coloured notifications so that when I change the transparency they don't dissapear? I'm not a very good artist
If someone could point me in the right direction regarding the mode9 & lua files that I'll need to change what I want to change it would be appreaciated.
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Think you can find the top text in 3a8e04af

Yea, got help from elsewhere thanks a while back..
I just referenced my post for another thread is all

Looking for a mode9 editing tutorial

Hello everyone
First of all I am a completely newbie in manila editing. I have been trying to find a sense 2.5 slider set that suits my taste but I still can't find one :/ SO i decided to make my own
I did a search about mode9 editing but couldn't find anything...can anyone point me to a thread? Thanks

ctbear said:
Hello everyone
First of all I am a completely newbie in manila editing. I have been trying to find a sense 2.5 slider set that suits my taste but I still can't find one :/ SO i decided to make my own
I did a search about mode9 editing but couldn't find anything...can anyone point me to a thread? Thanks
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You can just use m9editor. The only thing you need to do for a slider with mode9 might be to hide the active tab icon when that tab is selected with a transparent slider (otherwise you get an overlap of 2 icons when using a transparent slider). To change the graphic files, you would use cfcgui. Choose the slider and export to png with that program. Edit png to your liking and place it back in manila file with cfcgui.

mwalt2 said:
You can just use m9editor. The only thing you need to do for a slider with mode9 might be to hide the active tab icon when that tab is selected with a transparent slider (otherwise you get an overlap of 2 icons when using a transparent slider). To change the graphic files, you would use cfcgui. Choose the slider and export to png with that program. Edit png to your liking and place it back in manila file with cfcgui.
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That's actually what I want to do exactly
I looked at the m9editor and opened some extracted manila files, but I don't quite understand the parameters Do you know what I have to edit exactly to remove the overlapping image?

Creating icons from .psd file?

Hi, can somebody please advise me on how to make icons from a .psd file? I have CS6 and GIMP, (but no experience with either) and have been floundering around for the last hour or so trying to make even a single icon from the template, which is attached.
As a sidenote, I think it would be pretty cool (and useful) if somebody were to make a thread about this, as I am sure there are many people who would like to make their own icons, but don't have the know-how to do it.

Are you making a PNG icon? What I did was using a custom launcher (I use Apex in my case) so that you can change the icons on the homescreen using just transparent 96x96 PNG files.
To create PNG icons on CS6, CTRL+SHIFT+S to save as .PNG and transfer it to phone.

SomeFormOFhuman said:
Are you making a PNG icon? What I did was using a custom launcher (I use Apex in my case) so that you can change the icons on the homescreen using just transparent 96x96 PNG files.
To create PNG icons on CS6, CTRL+SHIFT+S to save as .PNG and transfer it to phone.
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Yep, a .png icon. I'm already using a theme which has a number of themed icons, the problem is getting other nonthemed icons to look similar to the themed icons. For that, there is a .psd template included, but I don't know how to use it to create icons.

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benjamingdelacruz said:
Yep, a .png icon. I'm already using a theme which has a number of themed icons, the problem is getting other nonthemed icons to look similar to the themed icons. For that, there is a .psd template included, but I don't know how to use it to create icons.
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A piece of cake! Lemme explain it to you:
1. First of all, open the .PSD file you attached above.
2. Hide ("close the eye") of the layer that has the text on it (the one that says "Drag your image UN...")
3. Drag-drop the image you want to transform into icon onto the working .PSD canvas (not where the layers are as it'll open a new project)
4. Move the image generated UNDER the layer you hid on step number 2... Your icon will be created.
Then, you just have to save your image as a .PNG file by selecting this option in the drop-down menu after doing CTRL+Shift+S ("Save as a .PSD" is by default)
And that's all! Hope it's clear now!
PS: Additionally, you may change the base colour of each icon by unlocking the "Base for icon" layer and then applying a color overlay under the "Blending options" as well as hide/delete the background.

Morrissex said:
A piece of cake! Lemme explain it to you:
1. First of all, open the .PSD file you attached above.
2. Hide ("close the eye") of the layer that has the text on it (the one that says "Drag your image UN...")
3. Drag-drop the image you want to transform into icon onto the working .PSD canvas (not where the layers are as it'll open a new project)
4. Move the image generated UNDER the layer you hid on step number 2... Your icon will be created.
Then, you just have to save your image as a .PNG file by selecting this option in the drop-down menu after doing CTRL+Shift+S ("Save as a .PSD" is by default)
And that's all! Hope it's clear now!
PS: Additionally, you may change the base colour of each icon by unlocking the "Base for icon" layer and then applying a color overlay under the "Blending options" as well as hide/delete the background.
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Thanks a ton, just a few questions.
1. After dragging and dropping the imageimage I want to change to an icon I have to "place" it, right?
2. After doing as told, what do I do if the image does not fit the base of the icon? For example, if it is too small?
3. After saving the file as a .png, the background still remains in the .png image. Is this normal?
Thanks again!
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benjamingdelacruz said:
1. After dragging and dropping the imageimage I want to change to an icon I have to "place" it, right?
2. After doing as told, what do I do if the image does not fit the base of the icon? For example, if it is too small?
3. After saving the file as a .png, the background still remains in the .png image. Is this normal?
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First off, if you speak Spanish (I think you do because of your name), you can ask me anything using that language. My mother tongue is Spanish, but I know some English as I studied English Teaching and Translation.
Concerning your questions, here you are the answers:
1. As I said before, you have to drag-drop the picture you want as an icon FROM a folder ON the canvas/working space (where how the icon will look like is). Then, you can modify it.
2. If the image is too short/large, you have to resize it. Simply, press Ctrl+T (assuming you're using Windows. If not, CommandKey+T), hold the shift button down (in order to mantain proportions) and drag the corners of the picture to resize it. When you're done, press Enter.
3. Which background? The one with the wood texture? If so, it is quite normal if you haven't hidden the background layer. As it is locked, you have to select the background layer, press the "padlock" on the layer section of PS and then you can hide it.
As I said before, feel free to PM me any question. If it sounds confusing in English (and if it happens you know Spanish), I can explain it to you (or make a screen cast if you have some time).
~Morrissex

Thanks, I'll contact you by pm.
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Themes

Anyone knows if we can modify themes via the phone files or maybe even create one ? The theme market s*cks so bad and wich i could implant an icon pack. (I miss nova launcher for that feature)
Thanks ?

You would think they have some kind of theme maker since they have a theme store on the Chinese version. If you look at .NubiaTheme/theme_infos/using/icons the icons file is just a zip file with the icons in it. Maybe they can be changed in there. And also take a look at description.xml I would but don't have time at the moment.

Icons seems to be packaged in a root file. Cant open. Description xml is empty ??*

Rename icons and add the .zip extension then you can look what's inside. Also use a note editor of some sort to read the xml files.

I use the theme apk and downloaded one of the free themes. It put the them in .NubiaThemes/theme_infos I was able to change the wallpaper and icons and went back into the theme app and was able to apply the theme with the new wallpapers and icons. So by doing this you can make your own custom themes.

I found out you can change other things like the background of the dialer, messages, etc... But need the xml config file from a theme that has the items listed so I know what I can change. And you can preset your fonts in the xml also. I've tried all the free ones they have so far and there pretty much the same, different main background and icons. There has to be a default file that has that info in it. I will try and guess what the config is maybe I will get somewhere.

Ok cuz even my friend who creates themes for android is baffled.... xD

Download activity launcher and search Nubia theme within the application. That allows you to change to nubias provided themes

Here is an idea of what you can change

Im not talking about simply changing or mixing themes. Talking about edit the xml file to be able to change every color,menus or icon the way you want.
??*?

i replaced most of the icons and renamed them to match the apps and all but a few worked I did about 30so far Im still needing the names to a few like the playstore etc...
So what i did was took the icon folder renamed it to icon.zip then uncompressed it removed all the icons so I could get an idea of the names of them and one by one replaced them.
Then I zipped the res folder thats inside of icons and named it icons.zip , renamed it to just icons remove the .zip and copy back in the theme folder where it came from. Change to that theme and your icons will be changed.
So here is an example I wanted to change chrome's icon. I found the icon I wanted to use and named it com.android.chrome.png put that in the icon folder and your done now you have to go in and replace each and find the names of them.
Here is a screen shot of mine changed but the playstore and some google apps I havent worked on yet.

usergentoo said:
i replaced most of the icons and renamed them to match the apps and all but a few worked I did about 30so far Im still needing the names to a few like the playstore etc...
So what i did was took the icon folder renamed it to icon.zip then uncompressed it removed all the icons so I could get an idea of the names of them and one by one replaced them.
Then I zipped the res folder thats inside of icons and named it icons.zip , renamed it to just icons remove the .zip and copy back in the theme folder where it came from. Change to that theme and your icons will be changed.
So here is an example I wanted to change chrome's icon. I found the icon I wanted to use and named it com.android.chrome.png put that in the icon folder and your done now you have to go in and replace each and find the names of them.
Here is a screen shot of mine changed but the playstore and some google apps I havent worked on yet.
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What was the source folder of the icons ? Ive tried using the icon folder from sdcard/.nubiatheme/ theme_mix/using but didnt work

Sorry about that, input the wrong folder in my previous post. It's actually theme_infos I just now saw it and went back and corrected it.

usergentoo said:
Sorry about that, input the wrong folder in my previous post. It's actually theme_infos I just now saw it and went back and corrected it.
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That folder is empty for me ?

Make sure you have the theme.apk from the Chinese phone version installed. Then go into the theme store and pick a free thrme down load it and it will show up in theme_infos then you'll see a folder with a bunch of numbers and letters. Just pick one and that will be your theme you will make the changes in . When you change the preview wallpaper it will show like that in the store also of themes you own.

usergentoo said:
Make sure you have the theme.apk from the Chinese phone version installed. Then go into the theme store and pick a free thrme down load it and it will show up in theme_infos then you'll see a folder with a bunch of numbers and letters. Just pick one and that will be your theme you will make the changes in . When you change the preview wallpaper it will show like that in the store also of themes you own.
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Alright. It worked. Like you said some app will not work but most of em does.
But we now miss matching icons for other apps ? guess i can extract icons from an icon pack and pick from there.
On the other hand, i really like the dark grey and red themed international defaut icons. (Someone who have so time could create an extra alternate edition international icon pack that includes more designs for other apps, hey we can dream, right??)
Thanks for the know how ! Its appreciated.

Almost every icon can be changed, but somehow some of them just wont work. (Calendar, Clock, Pool Break Pro and Textra) All the other ive tested works. (104/108apps)

That looks good.

usergentoo said:
That looks good.
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Tx. (Blacker icon pack)
Im not searching for a way to replace the settings menu icons.. ive found the signal icons (wifi, blutooth, data etc) from memubar but nothing else about the menu icons.

usergentoo said:
i replaced most of the icons and renamed them to match the apps and all but a few worked I did about 30so far Im still needing the names to a few like the playstore etc...
So what i did was took the icon folder renamed it to icon.zip then uncompressed it removed all the icons so I could get an idea of the names of them and one by one replaced them.
Then I zipped the res folder thats inside of icons and named it icons.zip , renamed it to just icons remove the .zip and copy back in the theme folder where it came from. Change to that theme and your icons will be changed.
So here is an example I wanted to change chrome's icon. I found the icon I wanted to use and named it com.android.chrome.png put that in the icon folder and your done now you have to go in and replace each and find the names of them.
Here is a screen shot of mine changed but the playstore and some google apps I havent worked on yet.
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Where can I find this animated wallpaper of rm5g? It was on 4.06 but lost in 4.09.
Thank