Hey guys, I'm totally new to anythign and everything about the HTC dream, at least in some regards, and ive been looking around the forums and see people have different icons for stuff like chomp sms and what not and im wondering how to do that. pleaase and thanks.
you can use better cut (in the market) and download icon packs or you can flash a theme that has the icons changed.
so i just download an icon pack? it says i need open home though.
the one i really want, is just the green chomp one, but id like to look through some more.
fr0lich1893 said:
so i just download an icon pack? it says i need open home though.
the one i really want, is just the green chomp one, but id like to look through some more.
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if you have better cut you shouldn't need open home. i use better cut without open home and it works fine for me.
so all i do is download any bettercut icon pack, then what?
you need the app better cut to use the icon pack
bettercut is the main app. using that app you can then download the free icon packs and then from there you can go ahead and assign icons to apps. i believe that's how it works.
i'm looking for Bettercut in the market, but the only that i found isn't free but i have to pay for install it...where can i find the free version?
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i'm looking for Bettercut in the market, but the only that i found isn't free but i have to pay for install it...where can i find the free version?
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once you buy it, you can download it for free in the market
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the one that displays how many apps are running, then once you click on it, allows you to see the name of the running apps and the ability to close/kill them: what is the name of it and can i find it on the market/outside source somewhere? i'd like to install it without installing the i9000 rom. any help is appreciated.
You mean the one that comes with the I9000? It's just called Task Manager I think. Might be a Samsung proprietory app so probably not on the Market
thanks! that's probably the one. is there a link to the samsung apps/widgets? i thought i saw something like that around here, but i can't locate it now.
-=HOLLYW00D=- said:
thanks! that's probably the one. is there a link to the samsung apps/widgets? i thought i saw something like that around here, but i can't locate it now.
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No idea, I think you'll probably need someone to extract the .apk out of the ROM
well, it turns out the widget is called "Program Monitor" and from what i've found, it's not compatibple with launcherpro. =(
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tried installing the widget (SamsungWidget_ProgramMonitor.apk), and i get "application not installed". oh well.
-=HOLLYW00D=- said:
well, it turns out the widget is called "Program Monitor" and from what i've found, it's not compatibple with launcherpro. =(
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tried installing the widget (SamsungWidget_ProgramMonitor.apk), and i get "application not installed". oh well.
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Yeah, I found it disappeared when I installed LauncherPro, so I just stuck a shortcut to the Task Manager on the home screen
Yeah, the Samsung Widgets like HTC's sense widgets will only work with their respective launchers, and not ADW / LauncherPro etc.
Sucks, cos I wanted to run the task manager widget next to my BatteryLife one
I recently flashed a gingerbread theme, and I love the black status bar, except how the notify icons look on it, since they were made for a white bar. So I'm trying to use Ninja Morph to change the icons, which seems like a simple procedure, but it's being very frustrating. I had the TweetDeck icon changed and working correctly, and then a half hour later it started FCing on me. Don't even get me started on the Google Voice app, that seems to work at complete random with no rhyme or reason.
This is frustrating. What's the trick here?
You know I was having the same problem I updated some of my Icons and i followed the instructions and made sure all my images were the same size name right ones and png's and everything then as soon as it rebooted it only gave me FC for every app but two and that was the dialer and the browser and the dialer only worked for incoming calls, the only solution was to sbf. No fun I cant figure out what i did, so no im thinking maybe i have a corrupted file and i need to go in and one by one change them out to figure out what was the cause if any. (oh did i mention this happened three time, what a pain in the a--) Well My advice would be to look at the specifics of what you are doing then maybe start over or try something different, but other than that IDK.
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I recently flashed a gingerbread theme, and I love the black status bar, except how the notify icons look on it, since they were made for a white bar. So I'm trying to use Ninja Morph to change the icons, which seems like a simple procedure, but it's being very frustrating. I had the TweetDeck icon changed and working correctly, and then a half hour later it started FCing on me. Don't even get me started on the Google Voice app, that seems to work at complete random with no rhyme or reason.
This is frustrating. What's the trick here?
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I could test for you. What apps and what icons? Maybe you could post them and I will do it and see what you're doing wrong (if anything). You know market apps have to be signed. Stericson has an app for that too called Signapktic. Works on the phone but in order to use it you have to tell Ninjamorph "NO" after it creates the package then you have an APK of your project in the AndroidThemes/workspace directory. Once signed you can zipalign in terminal and install. Let me know if you need a walkthrough for this method and I will write one up for you.
I'm having problems with ninjamorph too with it just hanging and never finishing. I have some sweet ideas too
Edubyah said:
I could test for you. What apps and what icons? Maybe you could post them and I will do it and see what you're doing wrong (if anything). You know market apps have to be signed. Stericson has an app for that too called Signapktic. Works on the phone but in order to use it you have to tell Ninjamorph "NO" after it creates the package then you have an APK of your project in the AndroidThemes/workspace directory. Once signed you can zipalign in terminal and install. Let me know if you need a walkthrough for this method and I will write one up for you.
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I could use a write up of how to do it via terminal if you could do this it would be greatly appreciated. Trying to switch a green for blue android in the Advanced task killer app and am having trouble
If you morph any thing different than a system app you have to re sign the app. Use Signaptic its free on the market. Also when you use signaptic choose the platform iption.
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With the atk app there is a widget you can place on the home screen that when pressed, instantly kills the active apps. The problem is, its kind of small and looks out of place with my theme, but I cant seem to find a way to change it. I'd like to be able to use a custom icon with desktop visualizer or something to be able to activate the widget's functions, but I can't figure it out.
ps, I don't want this to turn into a debate about whether or not to use a task killer, try to stay on topic.
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With the atk app there is a widget you can place on the home screen that when pressed, instantly kills the active apps. The problem is, its kind of small and looks out of place with my theme, but I cant seem to find a way to change it. I'd like to be able to use a custom icon with desktop visualizer or something to be able to activate the widget's functions, but I can't figure it out.
ps, I don't want this to turn into a debate about whether or not to use a task killer, try to stay on topic.
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You really don't need an app..... joking.
I've REALLY been wanting to know this as well. Likewise, it does not fit my theme or icons at all. It's the only out of place icon throughout all my homescreens.
I am also trying to do this, so I should probably add to the list of people and hopefully someone has a solution.
I'm using ADW and tried the custom shortcut but I can't find the activity that carries out what the widget does.
Any of the task manager activities just bring me into the app, rather than a direct autokill.
Also, I don't know if there is an android system activity for it, because I can't seem to find that either.
That's all I can contribute from my efforts anyway..
you'd have to do an adb decomile or winrar whatever then change the icon for the widget and resign the file. there are already versions floating around where people have done this already do some looking around...
Really? I've searched and came up with nothing, just back to here really, or other people asking the same thing..
If you had a link then that'd be handy, if not then thanks for the hint on a starting point..
I can change the icon for any application!
Skype martin22fc!
Even for a widget action?
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cianshortt said:
Even for a widget action?
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Yes,man!I already did different icons for widget actions!
I've done this before. All you need to do is rename the .apk to .zip and open it in your PC. Navigate to the icon image, replace with yours, rename the zip to apk push it to /system/app, fix permissions... dunsky.
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I never thought of that, I'll do that now..
And while you're here, you might know..
since you can't put a widget in a dock bar, is there way to assign the same widget function to a desktop shortcut?
Similar to the activities in adw launcher..
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ЯRockstar said:
Yes,man!I already did different icons for widget actions!
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I figured out how to do it thanks to keith, but thanks for your help anyway, at least this way saves you the hassle
cianshortt said:
I figured out how to do it thanks to keith, but thanks for your help anyway, at least this way saves you the hassle
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You'r welcome,man!Always happy to help!
Dont even need to open apk with comp. Ever hear of.ninjamorph app. Change/swap any file easy
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Is there a tweak or setting I can adjust so the names of apps on my desktop shows its full name rather than a fading-cutoff?
+1
Also wondering about this and the ability to maybe give a shortened name to an app on our homescreen.
miztaken1312 said:
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Also wondering about this and the ability to maybe give a shortened name to an app on our homescreen.
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Have you tried Go Launcher? It's similar to Launcher Pro, but it's free and you can rename applications on the home screens.
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With Launcher Pro you have to use SQLite Editor. There's a free one for Windows, but can't think of the name right now. Use Root Explorer to grab /data/data/com.fede.launcher/databases/launcher.db
In Favorites you'll find all the titles. Just rename, save and replace the file. Do a backup first in case anything goes wrong.
Launcher pro always asks if you want to use a custom name when adding to the desktop for me though I choose to hide them altogether.
Also, iirc bettercut and desktop visualizer can do this quite easily.
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With Launcher Pro you have to use SQLite Editor. There's a free one for Windows, but can't think of the name right now. Use Root Explorer to grab /data/data/com.fede.launcher/databases/launcher.db
In Favorites you'll find all the titles. Just rename, save and replace the file. Do a backup first in case anything goes wrong.
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Never knew that. Thank you!
newter55 said:
Launcher pro always asks if you want to use a custom name when adding to the desktop for me though I choose to hide them altogether.
Also, iirc bettercut and desktop visualizer can do this quite easily.
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I open the app drawer and just press and hold the icon, and add it that way. I just tried the way you described, and it was really slow to load.
I guess depending on how lazy I am, will depend on which method I use.
@mistaken
I occasionally see the slow load time for app list on the first use though it is not nearly as bad as it used to be.
I haven't had any luck trying to find a weather or messaging widget like the one spb shell has. I'm trying to not have to dish out a good 15 bucks for launcher that I like for two of its widgets... Any one know of any others out that are like those two?
Search for SPB Shell 3D apk on google on download it, then get a file manager like astro and just install it for free.
Tried that, it has a license check. I've tried all the cracked methods of getting it to work, and they don't work on cm7. It also, not that great of launcher, it just has two great widgets on it.
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I downloaded the cracked spb shell3D launcher and used titanium backup to freeze the market (no flags for licensing) worked like a charm.
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Well, I actually ended up getting the sucker to work by using a terminal trick, however I found that it was killing my battery, THEN ended up getting rid of all rogether because of the lack of customizing that Launcerpro adds.
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soulysephiroth said:
I haven't had any luck trying to find a weather or messaging widget like the one spb shell has. I'm trying to not have to dish out a good 15 bucks for launcher that I like for two of its widgets... Any one know of any others out that are like those two?
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did you find the answer of the question?
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I love the FLICKR image widget in spb shell 3d launcher is there any widget apk to use it on any other launcher
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