btw, anyone here that know how to add custom locksreen wallpaper to LGLockScreenSettings.apk? i have tried dwcompile the apk. and place the file into res/drawable-xxxhdpi and then compiled it back to apk. sign it. place back into system app. but the wallpaper still not showing up. maybe i should add some line to the xml file. but i dont know which one to edit. any help would be appreciate
Thanks
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Hello dear Forum...
First off I have to apologize if I missed something in a sticky,
since I'm new to the forum and the hole rooting/customizing on my GT I-9000.
I've successfully rooted my phone and I'm running Darky_v10_RC5_Final now.
Could anyone provide a link or an explanation how to:
# set own icons for apps
# set lockscreen (as its said there are 4 different ones on this ROM; plus changing the lockscreen image in the settings is not quite working for me)
# setting another theme - if not too complicated.
many thanks in advance - seems to be a truly nice community!
reimi said:
I've successfully rooted my phone and I'm running Darky_v10_RC5_Final now.
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Final ?? When did it come out ?? Didn't find on Darky's website.
Sorry , wasn't logged in.
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Final ?? When did it come out ?? Didn't find on Darky's website.
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its the files name, I downloaded from somewhere in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=814091
reimi said:
Hello dear Forum...
First off I have to apologize if I missed something in a sticky,
since I'm new to the forum and the hole rooting/customizing on my GT I-9000.
I've successfully rooted my phone and I'm running Darky_v10_RC5_Final now.
Could anyone provide a link or an explanation how to:
# set own icons for apps
# set lockscreen (as its said there are 4 different ones on this ROM; plus changing the lockscreen image in the settings is not quite working for me)
# setting another theme - if not too complicated.
many thanks in advance - seems to be a truly nice community!
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To change the icon in an apk, you need to get the apk, open it with winrar and go to drawable-hdpi
There are pngs there. Normally, the icon one is called icon.png, but on some apps, it has a different name, for example ic_launcher_phone.png
You edit it and substitute it.
Then you push the apk back into your phone into /system/app in case it's a system app or you just copy the apk to your sdcard and install it.
Lockscreen background may not work with some specific lockscreens.
For a theme, to make one you'd need to edit the pngs in framework-res.apk/drawable-hdpi (opening it with winrar) and then push it back. That's for changing icons and part of the appearance, but to change text colours and other things you'd need to decompile the apk and edit some xml's.
To apply a theme you just need the zip of the theme, copy it into your sdcard and install it through cwm.
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To change the icon in an apk, you need to get the apk, open it with winrar and go to drawable-hdpi
There are pngs there. Normally, the icon one is called icon.png, but on some apps, it has a different name, for example ic_launcher_phone.png
You edit it and substitute it.
Then you push the apk back into your phone into /system/app in case it's a system app or you just copy the apk to your sdcard and install it.
Lockscreen background may not work with some specific lockscreens.
For a theme, to make one you'd need to edit the pngs in framework-res.apk/drawable-hdpi (opening it with winrar) and then push it back. That's for changing icons and part of the appearance, but to change text colours and other things you'd need to decompile the apk and edit some xml's.
To apply a theme you just need the zip of the theme, copy it into your sdcard and install it through cwm.
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thank you for the answer!
Is there no way to change the icons of stock applications?
And how may I change the lockscreen?
could you please give me a link, or something how to apply themes via cwm - to be honest I don't even know what cwm is.
sorry for all the questions - many thanks in advance!
reimi said:
thank you for the answer!
Is there no way to change the icons of stock applications?
And how may I change the lockscreen?
could you please give me a link, or something how to apply themes via cwm - to be honest I don't even know what cwm is.
sorry for all the questions - many thanks in advance!
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Sorry, had lost track of this thread.
You can change the icon of stock applications in same way, but you must be rooted since they are located in system/app
For the lockscreen, to theme the glass lockscreen, you need to edit the pngs in framework-res.apk/res/drawable-hdpi named zzz_unlock_arrow_0000.png up to zzz_unlock_arrow_0009.png and the zzz_unlock_blackbg.9.png and zzz_blackbg_dual.9.png
To theme puzzle lockscreen:
edit zzz_unlock_puzzle_noti_icon_unlock and zzz_unlock_puzzle_noti_icon_unlock_fit
For android lockscreen (in framework-res.apk/res/drawable-land-hdpi):
ic_jog_dial_unlock
ic_jog_dial_sound on
ic_jog_dial_sound off
For epic unlock on framework-res.apk/res/drawable-hdpi
mod zz_unlock_lockbg_press
mod zz_unlock_lockbg_press
In case you want to get a stock framework and get aosp lockscreen:
To get aosp lockscreen you'd need to decompile classes.dex in android.policy.jar and edit a few files.
For that, i use ubuntu.
You open android.policy.jar and extract classes.dex
Then get baksmali and smali and place them in the same location as classes.dex
Open up a terminal and type cd and the location
Example:
cd /home/coldflid/Desktop
Then type java -jar baksmali-1.2.5.jar classes.dex
(if you've got another version of bajsmali change the 1.2.5 for the version you have).
You can type java -jar baksmali-1.2.5.jar classes.dex -o *
Where * is the name of the folder where you want classes.dex to be decompiled
Then you'd need to mod LockPatternKeyGuardView.smali or replace it with a modded one.
Then type in terminal
Then type java -jar smali-1.2.5.jar *
Where * is the name of the folder where classes.dex was decompiled
out.dex should be generated, rename it to classes.dex and copy it to android.policy.jar (replace the old one).
Then use root explorer to copy it to system/framework
coldflid said:
Sorry, had lost track of this thread.
You can change the icon of stock applications in same way, but you must be rooted since they are located in system/app
For the lockscreen, to theme...
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thank you for the answer!
I'm currently using LockBot Pro to change the locksreen and its background, works fine for me.
I'll try to change the stock app icons as soon as I have time. Thanks!
coldflid said:
Sorry, had lost track of this thread.
You can change the icon of stock applications in same way, but you must be rooted since they are located in system/app...
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I'm currently trying to substitute the stock app icons.
My question is, how I can find out, which of all those images is used for the menu and how can I browse the folders on my pc, which I can browse on my phone via root explorer...
thanks for the answer!
So I'm currently using a MMS app that is modded with emojis + other useful settings . But I was wondering if anyone could help me add the emojis from ios6 into that application. I took the emojis out of the Handcent Emoji Plugin application and I'll attach it with this post along with the MMS.apk that has the "regular" emojis that I'm using at the moment.
If not, could someone help me with editing/modding the MMS.apk so I can add them myself? I played around with APKtool and also APK manager but I'm unable to "decompile" the application
Edit: Some possibly useful or useless information-Galaxy Nexus running on a rom that is on 4.2.1 (aosp)
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Update!
So i was able to change the public.xml file to add the ios6 emojis. But now, when I recompile the apk, theres an error. Where else should I change the code?
I would also like this
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areole said:
Update!
So i was able to change the public.xml file to add the ios6 emojis. But now, when I recompile the apk, theres an error. Where else should I change the code?
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What error are you getting? Are you defining images in the public XML and not adding the actual image? Anyway a log would help also it's easier to just add the images try to recompile and let the public XML build new resource ids for the new images. I have never looked into this but i would imagine you would need to add something else in styles or strings can't remember which one. Also I'm not sure how well those new icons will play with other phones it might work i just don't know.
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What error are you getting? Are you defining images in the public XML and not adding the actual image? Anyway a log would help also it's easier to just add the images try to recompile and let the public XML build new resource ids for the new images. I have never looked into this but i would imagine you would need to add something else in styles or strings can't remember which one. Also I'm not sure how well those new icons will play with other phones it might work i just don't know.
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The error I'm getting is "public drawable symbol is not defined"
I added the actual image (.png) files to the folder where all the other drawable images were located. I believe the folder was called drawable-xhdpi (I don't have access the the computer I used to mod the mms.apk at the moment). This was the only folder were the older emojis were in. Could you explain to me the recompiling? Do I not physically edit the public.xml file, and let it update itself?
This is what I did:
1. Extracted new emoji's from handcent
2. Decompiled the mms.apk + added new emojis to drawable-xhdpi folder (I tried recompiling here but when I used the app, there were no new emojis)
3. I clicked around and opened the public.xml file and saw that there were emojis names and id codes so I manually added more coding so that the new emojis would have codes.
4. When I added id codes to all the new emojis, I noticed that the id codes doubled in some misc. picture files so I manually changed those as well so the id codes wouldn't double
5. Save and recompiled it but it wouldn't work.
The .png icons that I extracted from handcent (I believe) are the same ones in the mms.apk currently since they have the same names. So I assumed that it was okay to do, but I might be wrong.
Thank you, sorry for the trouble
Hi, first of all thanks for coming here
I've been trying to mod an existing theme for me but till now no luck, i've tried to open the apk with 7z, drop the new pngs i want, save and close,
Then sign and installation failure, then someone sugested try to delete META-INF and still no luck
So i tried to go into hardcore and decompile and all that crazy stuff but still no luck, my JDK refuses to work =S, so im really going crazy =S
If someone kindly can give some advice or take a look into my theme files i would be really gratefull
ill post the gdrive link: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bxt51MAjKyi0MDNCMm1HaV9sU1U/edit?usp=sharing
thanks
good Luck
Tyrany said:
Hi, first of all thanks for coming here
I've been trying to mod an existing theme for me but till now no luck, i've tried to open the apk with 7z, drop the new pngs i want, save and close,
Then sign and installation failure, then someone sugested try to delete META-INF and still no luck
So i tried to go into hardcore and decompile and all that crazy stuff but still no luck, my JDK refuses to work =S, so im really going crazy =S
If someone kindly can give some advice or take a look into my theme files i would be really gratefull
ill post the gdrive link: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bxt51MAjKyi0MDNCMm1HaV9sU1U/edit?usp=sharing
thanks
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Man One day i will try to do this I am hoping for the best and I'm sure someone will come up with some help for you!
No need to mess with decompiling if all you are changing is images. You can use 7zip like you said, but rename it to theme.zip first, then replace your images (not .9.images, only .png) then rename back to theme.apk and install.
Sorry to hijack this thread, but I have a similar question.
How easy would it be to remove custom icons from a (Theme Chooser) theme? You know how they sometimes replace the messaging and camera icons, etc. I want the theme but not the icon replacements. Possible?
Would it be as easy as renaming to a zip and finding and deleting the icon images?
jakis39 said:
Sorry to hijack this thread, but I have a similar question.
How easy would it be to remove custom icons from a (Theme Chooser) theme? You know how they sometimes replace the messaging and camera icons, etc. I want the theme but not the icon replacements. Possible?
Would it be as easy as renaming to a zip and finding and deleting the icon images?
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Yep.
I am looking to theme my stock SMS bubbles to different colours other than those available.
I have searched everywhere and cannot find any collection of themes for this.
I am running edgarf28's XperianZE Rom.
Can anyone offer any help with this...?
I did particularly love the red and grey of the MIUI theme for the S3 but that theme isn't compatible with my current ROM version...
If possible, I'd like to just theme the SMS (stock).
Please don't point me towards GoSMS etc.... I don't want to install a third party SMS app.
Thanks for any help.
xxxxchrisxxxx said:
I am looking to theme my stock SMS bubbles to different colours other than those available.
I have searched everywhere and cannot find any collection of themes for this.
I am running edgarf28's XperianZE Rom.
Can anyone offer any help with this...?
I did particularly love the red and grey of the MIUI theme for the S3 but that theme isn't compatible with my current ROM version...
If possible, I'd like to just theme the SMS (stock).
Please don't point me towards GoSMS etc.... I don't want to install a third party SMS app.
Thanks for any help.
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you need to know about to:
1- How to decompile and editing System apk files. i suggest you to read the manuals about the APK MULTITOOL. (google it)
2- How to edit 9.png files
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you need to edit : System/app/SecMms.apk
when you decompile it, goto SecMms.apk/res/drawable-xhdpi folder
you can find the 9.png files that started by message_bubble***.9.png names.
edit them, and recompile SecMms.apk
copy edited SecMms.apk file into system/app folder on your phone.
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Useful links
For 9.Png files
[TUTO] Create your 9.png !
[GUIDE][THEME] Where to find 9.png image
How to edit .9.pngs
For multi tool
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1310151
Best Regards.
Thanks for the advice.. looks a little tricky for a beginner.
Is it possible for me to somehow take the SecMms.apk file from another rom and drop it into my SecMms.apk/res/drawable-xhdpi folder?
Also, if i can do this.. do i need any particular file browser etc to access that folder? Can this be done post Rom install, or does this all need to be done within the flashable rom zip file prior to flashing?
Thank you.
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Thanks for the advice.. looks a little tricky for a beginner.
Is it possible for me to somehow take the SecMms.apk file from another rom and drop it into my SecMms.apk/res/drawable-xhdpi folder?
Also, if i can do this.. do i need any particular file browser etc to access that folder? Can this be done post Rom install, or does this all need to be done within the flashable rom zip file prior to flashing?
Thank you.
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there is no path secmms.apk/res/x/x
first u need to decompile ur secmms.apk
u can do it after installation also..no problem in that..replace secmms.apk directly, if u have another secmms.apk with those colored bubbles u want
Hello !
How i can change the icons in the App-Drawer ?
Is there an App like Winterboard for iOS ?
I use a HTC DHD with CM 10.1
Thanks !
Depending on the launcher your using there are icon packs in market but it won't change all of them. You can get experimental and open the apks and change the PNG images but I would do a Full Research on how to come about it cause its no easy task. You can change the .apk to .zip unzip find PNG change rezip change .zip back to .apk then sign it. Its how I do mines but like I said do your research and backup rom before you attempt anything. Enjoy the learning. By the way there is an app that signs the apk for you on the phone. I am out now but I will upload it with instructions for you as soon as I can get to my computer.
Just install apk open it then click button (Choose In/Out) find apk you want to sign then click button (Sign The File). You will then have two files in the folder one signed the other not signed.
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Ok thank you ! You mean i must add my new Icon to the IconPack.apk ?
Where i can find the right Names for the Icons ?
And must i delete a Folder before sign the App ? I see this in other Sign-HowTo, but this dont work.
So many Questions ...
No do not delete any folders all your doing is changing the PNG. But make sure the new PNG is the same size as the one being replaced as well as named exactly as the old one. Icon is located in : res folder > drawable-hdpi folder