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I have seen a few themes incorporating this, so I was just wondering if anyone had it on it's own?
Also: if anyone can tell me how to extract certain aspects of a theme (not within metamorph but outside so I actually save time), that would be awesome.
Here you go. It's a Metamorph theme, as that was the quickest easiest thing to put together. If you want to play with it yourself, take a look at the files in the zip i made for you. They should give you the basic idea. To extract them yourself, just rename the apk file to .zip and extract. Then edit as you like.
However this theme is untested, but should work as intended. It is made for MCR 3.0, but should work with all roms.
Theme file is missing or corrupted.
Anyone else wanna supply a working one?
here you gooooooo
update.zip
clear keyboard background
http://www.4shared.com/file/217207050/5e76db71/justclearkeybg.html
go to toown
oh yea didnt test this either lol
uh i think this will only work for sense but idk
plz do a nandroid as i did this in 2 min and i might have forgotn something or messed something up ahah
well im not sure if there has to be a certain folder that i removed
oh and well yea do a nandroid
Worked perfectly. Thanks
yuur welcome!
I'm trying to theme android.
I know that I can extract the APK's and edit the images, but what do I do after that?
how do I pack them back into APK files?
Learn to use either metamorph or ninjamorph. Their both apps by stereicson that let you change every image from an apk from within the phone.
what I meant was how would I create my own theme.
I'm not trying to apply themes that were already made, I'm trying to create a new theme.
but I've found that ubuntu lets me edit the images without extracting the apk
swee08315 said:
what I meant was how would I create my own theme.
I'm not trying to apply themes that were already made, I'm trying to create a new theme.
but I've found that ubuntu lets me edit the images without extracting the apk
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creating your own theme is very really easy. but it can be very time consuming depending on what you are trying to accomplish and edit.
After you edited your .png file (NOT .9.ping because that requires a much more advance and complicated method) simply sign the apk file, create the update-script to place in the /META-INF/com/google/android directory and then sign the update.zip file. You will need to use the search feature to lookup.
"update-script"
"signing tool"
Good luck
mejorguille said:
Learn to use either metamorph or ninjamorph. Their both apps by stereicson that let you change every image from an apk from within the phone.
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I would suggest the metamorph as well instead of flashing. Flashing seems like it would just take too much time.
Also, Android Commander and Droid Explorer (maybe a few others) offer easy signing tools/transferring the apk without the need of any metamorph or flashing.
Thank you Binary100100
that's exactly what I needed
and also to r3s-rt:
I need to create an update .zip for this task.
swee08315 said:
Thank you Binary100100
that's exactly what I needed
and also to r3s-rt:
I need to create an update .zip for this task.
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For ANY themeing, you don't need an update.zip. I'm just saying look into metamorph a bit; it really is easier than flashing and reflashing if it doesn't come out right. If updates are easier for you, though, go for it. =]
thanks again.
but where exactly would I look to modify the widgets?
specifically the music and clock widgets?
swee08315 said:
thanks again.
but where exactly would I look to modify the widgets?
specifically the music and clock widgets?
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Music widget is in Music.apk. Clock widget is in DeskClock.apk.
Though metamorph is convenient, in my opinion it is a better tool to test parts of a theme. Learn how to sign update.zip files (with ubuntu it is as simple as a right click), there will be less errors this way (and you can theme the market,....).
p.s. Do learn metamorph also, it is great.
thanks, but where is the search widget?
and yes, I will learn
swee08315 said:
thanks, but where is the search widget?
and yes, I will learn
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launcher.apk
creating a black softkey menu pop up with white text.
Hello everyone! I posted something like this and got no real answers. I'm not trying to create a full theme just edit what I already have. I'm trying to change the stock cyanogenmod softkey menu pop up. If gotten my images in place and got the background and icons the way I want them but I don't know which values XML file I need to edit in order to change the text color. Does anyone have any insight on which file I need in order to edit the menus text to white? Already decompiled the framework-res.apk.
Thanks
This is awesome, I'm just trying to get started with customizing android and theming seemed like the logical starting point. Thanks for the input guys/gals.
I remember when I had my myTouch, you could essentially pull the framework-res.apk file, modify it using a program like 7zip which keeps the file verified, then push it back to the phone.
It was nice and easy changing the graphics. Was wondering if anyone's tried this with their Slide so far? I know sometimes (only if done wrong) it could cos infinite boot = nandroid. Not sure I want to try it just yet, anyone out there doing any themeing so far? If so, how'd you do it?
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I remember when I had my myTouch, you could essentially pull the framework-res.apk file, modify it using a program like 7zip which keeps the file verified, then push it back to the phone.
It was nice and easy changing the graphics. Was wondering if anyone's tried this with their Slide so far? I know sometimes (only if done wrong) it could cos infinite boot = nandroid. Not sure I want to try it just yet, anyone out there doing any themeing so far? If so, how'd you do it?
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there is a theme forum for this phone, please post this in there(there is also already a post in there full of people trying)
android007 said:
I remember when I had my myTouch, you could essentially pull the framework-res.apk file, modify it using a program like 7zip which keeps the file verified, then push it back to the phone.
It was nice and easy changing the graphics. Was wondering if anyone's tried this with their Slide so far? I know sometimes (only if done wrong) it could cos infinite boot = nandroid. Not sure I want to try it just yet, anyone out there doing any themeing so far? If so, how'd you do it?
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Im working on one right now...i got the red slide but it has no red themes to speak of...the Fuzzy_Kittens one has a kindof a red theme to it, but all the selectors and highlights and button_press's are all still blue, and its UGLY. so im working on eradicating all the blue, in favor of red.
For the most part its the same as themeing for the G1. There's a LOT more apks in /system to make changes to, and ive found that theres TWO frameworks to take care of, the normal android framework-res.apk, and the also in /system/framework there is com.htc.resources.apk, which is apparently htc's version of framework-res. it contains all kinds of images called common_<whatever>.png and this is where i found the files that make up the default "Nest" theme. all the other themes that you can choose for the Slide are in .apk form and up until we had root i was modifying and installing the apk's to theme this puppy, but i could never find the .apk for the default theme...well thats why, the default theme is in com.htc.resources.apk, and its the default espresso theme, not a tmobile theme.
Im still working on my theme, its not ready yet, i just had yesterday to work on it, and ive made some progress, but i still have to get a generic 2.1 ROM to build so i can extract the xmls from it to inject into the ROM to change colors that are coded like progressbars, white backgrounds, etc. so whenever i get time for that ill be rollin...then i wanna try to get colorchange.jar to work on SlideMEROOT2 so i can change the clock and notif. text and stuff...alll in due time!
-BMFC
You have to de-odex the framework-res and the com.HTC.resources to theme
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You have to de-odex the framework-res and the com.HTC.resources to theme
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Sorry, but im afraid you're wrong...i didnt de-odex anything, and my theme is working fine...i can upload screenshots if you dont believe me.
-BMFC
bmfc187 said:
Sorry, but im afraid you're wrong...i didnt de-odex anything, and my theme is working fine...i can upload screenshots if you dont believe me.
-BMFC
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even though you sound like a di*k. Good find I had been theming using de-odexed files but I'll give this a try.
Sorry, but im afraid you're wrong...i didnt de-odex anything, and my theme is working fine...i can upload screenshots if you dont believe me.
-BMFC
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even though you sound like a di*k. Good find I had been theming using de-odexed files but I'll give this a try.
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Honestly you're kinda right, I do come off sounding like a **** a lot...sorry didn't mean for it to come out that way...
anyway yeah you can do it without deodexing, I'm just using winrar to extract the whole ROM to a folder, then I go into and extract all .apks using 7zip (winrar doesn't recognize .apk files, you hafta rename them to *.apk.zip, but 7zip works on .apks without renaming them at all). Then I just modify or replace whatever images then inject them into a copy of the ROM .zip and resign and reflash...works great for me!
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what is a good xml editor
Eclipse
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aaronpoweruser said:
Eclipse
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im on the site witch one
Eclipse, Notepad++ or gedit
Use apk manager to decompile the apk then notepad++ to edit the XML then recompile the apk.
For editing just use notepad++ if you want an ide to manage a project and also do xml edit go the eclipse route... preferably Myeclipse.
Papa Smurf151 said:
Use apk manager to decompile the apk then notepad++ to edit the XML then recompile the apk.
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Would this be a way to use an evo's 4g icons in place of my 3g ones? I thought it would be fun to try...
I assume I can't simply unzip framework-res.apk, paste them in and zip it back up and actually expect it to work...
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Vandelay007 said:
Would this be a way to use an evo's 4g icons in place of my 3g ones? I thought it would be fun to try...
I assume I can't simply unzip framework-res.apk, paste them in and zip it back up and actually expect it to work...
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I personally don't use apk manager for PNG edits. Never had good luck getting the apk to recompile correctly. I mainly use it to edit XML files, do Smali edits, do resources.arsc(which when decompiled is converted to values folder in the Res folder), and android manifest edits.
Eclipse is to much to confusing for a lot of people to use. I personally can't stand it. Well except to recompile .9 files.
But who am I to tell someone what to use. I've only edited a bunch of XML files and resources.arsc file and Smali edits....etc and put stuff out on the market. So I really have no idea what should be used. Lol
Simply replacing the PNG files should give u the result ur looking for. No need to decompile the apk to do that. Just make sure u change the PNG file name to the file u want to use as a replacement
Papa Smurf151 said:
I personally don't use apk manager for PNG edits. Never had good luck getting the apk to recompile correctly. I mainly use it to edit XML files, do Smali edits, do resources.arsc(which when decompiled is converted to values folder in the Res folder), and android manifest edits.
Eclipse is to much to confusing for a lot of people to use. I personally can't stand it. Well except to recompile .9 files.
But who am I to tell someone what to use. I've only edited a bunch of XML files and resources.arsc file and Smali edits....etc and put stuff out on the market. So I really have no idea what should be used. Lol
Simply replacing the PNG files should give u the result ur looking for. No need to decompile the apk to do that. Just make sure u change the PNG file name to the file u want to use as a replacement
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I agree with you totally on Eclipse... I use it on a daily bases and sometimes its easier to just use notepad++ for smaller things.. even tho I love Eclipse.
Smali is annoying to look at and I can't stand the decompiled code... I'd love to contribute to Cyanogens or Darch Repo but I don't have the setup to do it at the moment, I have a nice box but the family would be pissed if I tried to convert them to Linux and I deplore dual boot.
So I'm happy for now with f-ing around in GIMP and doing some stuff I dont get to do in my professional life.
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I agree with you totally on Eclipse... I use it on a daily bases and sometimes its easier to just use notepad++ for smaller things.. even tho I love Eclipse.
Smali is annoying to look at and I can't stand the decompiled code... I'd love to contribute to Cyanogens or Darch Repo but I don't have the setup to do it at the moment, I have a nice box but the family would be pissed if I tried to convert them to Linux and I deplore dual boot.
So I'm happy for now with f-ing around in GIMP and doing some stuff I dont get to do in my professional life.
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Agreed. Eclipse is a pita. That's why I love apk manager. I can almost do everything with that as I can with eclipse without all the excess steps eclipse runs u through.
I have dual boot on my laptop and it works great. I mainly stay on windows but use Linux every once in a blue moon.
I also use Photoshop rather than gimp. Gimp has always seemed very not user friendly.
I hate Smali code but I'm learning how to edit it and create my own as it is the root of the apks and there r just somethings that have to be played around with in there.
The one thing I have learned is that everything is so much easier when decompiled.
I tried to edit bianary XML. I'd almost rather take a bullet in the head. LOL
Papa Smurf151 said:
Agreed. Eclipse is a pita. That's why I love apk manager. I can almost do everything with that as I can with eclipse without all the excess steps eclipse runs u through.
I have dual boot on my laptop and it works great. I mainly stay on windows but use Linux every once in a blue moon.
I also use Photoshop rather than gimp. Gimp has always seemed very not user friendly.
I hate Smali code but I'm learning how to edit it and create my own as it is the root of the apks and there r just somethings that have to be played around with in there.
The one thing I have learned is that everything is so much easier when decompiled.
I tried to edit bianary XML. I'd almost rather take a bullet in the head. LOL
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No blasphemy against Eclipse And I love Gimp its a little flaky on Windows but its free. What APK manager are you using?
ASimmons said:
No blasphemy against Eclipse And I love Gimp its a little flaky on Windows but its free. What APK manager are you using?
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Its a program call apk manager. U can find it on xda for free. Or u can download my everything android zip in the dev section. I put it in there. It let's u decompile Apks. Recompile apks. Sign apks optimize apks and zip align apks. All in one program. Its great.
I use apk manager 4. Something that has a script in it. Thought maybe you were using something else. Thanks for the info.
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I use apk manager 4. Something that has a script in it. Thought maybe you were using something else. Thanks for the info.
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Yeah same program I'm using. 4.8 is the newest version. I swear by it
I've been looking around for a few hours now trying to figure out how to edit these xml files with no luck. I've found numerous tutorials but none of them seem to get me in the right direction. I can't get passed opening the files.
I've tried TextWrangler on my Mac and Notepad++ in Windows ... both give me a bunch of giberish.
I am able to see a few lines of txt like layout_height and textColor but there are no values listed to edit??? Maybe I'm looking at the wrong xml files?
Ultimately I'm trying to see if I can adjust the layout and txt color of the notification pulldown.
Any suggestions?
KaneOfMars said:
I've been looking around for a few hours now trying to figure out how to edit these xml files with no luck. I've found numerous tutorials but none of them seem to get me in the right direction. I can't get passed opening the files.
I've tried TextWrangler on my Mac and Notepad++ in Windows ... both give me a bunch of giberish.
I am able to see a few lines of txt like layout_height and textColor but there are no values listed to edit??? Maybe I'm looking at the wrong xml files?
Ultimately I'm trying to see if I can adjust the layout and txt color of the notification pulldown.
Any suggestions?
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When you go to extract the apk, just decompile, DO NOT extract. (If using apkmanager)
Then I use Notepad++ for any changes. Just remember to not extract the apk, just decompile it, then go into the projects folder and it will be in there.
What XML files are you trying to edit?
spc_hicks09 said:
When you go to extract the apk, just decompile, DO NOT extract. (If using apkmanager)
Then I use Notepad++ for any changes. Just remember to not extract the apk, just decompile it, then go into the projects folder and it will be in there.
What XML files are you trying to edit?
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What he said.
I will try to be on irc tonight if anyone wants any help with anything. I need to try to get things going myself lol!
mtmichaelson said:
What he said.
I will try to be on irc tonight if anyone wants any help with anything. I need to try to get things going myself lol!
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I only know that because YOU told me lol!
ah, I see now ... I extracted instead of decompiling. I'll give that a try.
I'm not sure which ones to edit ... I started with status_bar_expanded.xml
I want to see if I can adjust the size of the section with the toggles and change the color of the text.
Which brings up another question ... do I edit the ones in framework-res or lge-res? or both?
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ah, I see now ... I extracted instead of decompiling. I'll give that a try.
I'm not sure which ones to edit ... I started with status_bar_expanded.xml
I want to see if I can adjust the size of the section with the toggles and change the color of the text.
Which brings up another question ... do I edit the ones in framework-res or lge-res? or both?
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I believe you can actually adjust the size of that by adjusting the size of the images. Try making the images wider, and leave the height the same, and it "should" shrink the images, and in turn shrink the bar.
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I only know that because YOU told me lol!
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Lol, that's what I'm here for!
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mtmichaelson said:
I believe you can actually adjust the size of that by adjusting the size of the images. Try making the images wider, and leave the height the same, and it "should" shrink the images, and in turn shrink the bar.
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sweet, I'll try that first ... can't make heads or tales out of these xml files
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sweet, I'll try that first ... can't make heads or tales out of these xml files
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Lol, they can be a bit daunting!
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spc_hicks09 said:
When you go to extract the apk, just decompile, DO NOT extract. (If using apkmanager)
Then I use Notepad++ for any changes. Just remember to not extract the apk, just decompile it, then go into the projects folder and it will be in there.
What XML files are you trying to edit?
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Thanks.. I have been looking for this answer also
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KaneOfMars said:
ah, I see now ... I extracted instead of decompiling. I'll give that a try.
I'm not sure which ones to edit ... I started with status_bar_expanded.xml
I want to see if I can adjust the size of the section with the toggles and change the color of the text.
Which brings up another question ... do I edit the ones in framework-res or lge-res? or both?
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I have been working on something myself and after several failed attempts I used UOT Kitchen, edited some files in both framework-res.apk, lge-res.apk,(using paint.net) added a wallpaper I found, installed an adw themed launcher I just have no freakin idea how to put everything in a zip to flash it in cwm. (I can add files and folders to a .zip, just need help with the scripts and all)
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Pics are what i have so far.. not planning on releasing this unless someone really wants it, just practicing on my own phone..
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I have been working on something myself and after several failed attempts I used UOT Kitchen, edited some files in both framework-res.apk, lge-res.apk,(using paint.net) added a wallpaper I found, installed an adw themed launcher I just have no freakin idea how to put everything in a zip to flash it in cwm. (I can add files and folders to a .zip, just need help with the scripts and all)
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Looks good! Come on irc tonight and I can help you with the cwm script, or send me a zip with the .apks that you edited, and I can make a zip for you.
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I have been working on something myself and after several failed attempts I used UOT Kitchen, edited some files in both framework-res.apk, lge-res.apk,(using paint.net) added a wallpaper I found, installed an adw themed launcher I just have no freakin idea how to put everything in a zip to flash it in cwm. (I can add files and folders to a .zip, just need help with the scripts and all)
Pics are what i have so far.. not planning on releasing this unless someone really wants it, just practicing on my own phone..
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Looks good so far... How did you change the color of the app labels to red? Was that in UOT Kitchen?
As far as the update zip... I couldn't quite figure it out but I got it to work. There's probably an easier way, but i extracted a zip I downloaded from UOT and replaced the framework_res with my updated one. Then I used testsign.jar (requires java SDK) to sign the update.
I dont have access to the links I found for this, if someone else has a better way please let us know.
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Looks good so far... How did you change the color of the app labels to red? Was that in UOT Kitchen?
As far as the update zip... I couldn't quite figure it out but I got it to work. There's probably an easier way, but i extracted a zip I downloaded from UOT and replaced the framework_res with my updated one. Then I used testsign.jar (requires java SDK) to sign the update.
I dont have access to the links I found for this, if someone else has a better way please let us know.
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You do not have to sign the zip for cwm.
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You do not have to sign the zip for cwm.
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SWEET! Thanks.
Also, here's a screenshot of what I was working on (I missed one )
Drt that looks really nice. I think you should release it the more people for development the better!!
I've Revolted have you?
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SWEET! Thanks.
Also, here's a screenshot of what I was working on (I missed one )
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Try 33B5E5 for the color, it'll match better ;-) haven't been anywhere near home or my laptop, and won't be until Sunday... I like the tiny button idea a lot!
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Definitely want to release it, also I've already changed the color to match the theme but haven't had a chance to flash it yet
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I like the buttons for the notification page.
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KaneOfMars said:
Looks good so far... How did you change the color of the app labels to red? Was that in UOT Kitchen?
As far as the update zip... I couldn't quite figure it out but I got it to work. There's probably an easier way, but i extracted a zip I downloaded from UOT and replaced the framework_res with my updated one. Then I used testsign.jar (requires java SDK) to sign the update.
I dont have access to the links I found for this, if someone else has a better way please let us know.
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Thanks MT.. I will try to get on.. what site and channel? The app labels I can't take credit for. I installed adw launcher and a free red theme.. would have to look it up again. That takes care of the dock and app drawer and icons and labels. I guess you would have to install adw and the theme yourself to get the whole effect.
The notification pull down menu I edited in UOT except for the gps, bt, airplane ect was just MT's Revolt icons I just colored them red from green using paint.net. I want to change the top bar icons.. just have to find some I like. The battery mod was in UOT Kitchen.
I tried to set the wallpaper as "default_wallpaper" in lge-res.apk but after replacing the lge-res.apk in /system/framework it doesn't actually set the wallpaper after rebooting. Wonder if it would after flashing if that makes a difference? or would that be in the script? Or could I only do that if I were modding a entire ROM?
I will try to do something with adw launcher so I can call it my own but lacking time right now. Thanks for the help!!
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