If I change the look of the Rosie launcher, so instead of the curved stock one it's more in the style of say Espresso, which is flat, the line/bar that denotes what screen you are on still curves, following the line of the stock Rosie launcher. Does anyone know what file needs to be changed to make it run straight when you go from screen to screen?
I know I could just make it invisible but I'd like it to be there if possible.
jpool81 said:
If I change the look of the Rosie launcher, so instead of the curved stock one it's more in the style of say Espresso, which is flat, the line/bar that denotes what screen you are on still curves, following the line of the stock Rosie launcher. Does anyone know what file needs to be changed to make it run straight when you go from screen to screen?
I know I could just make it invisible but I'd like it to be there if possible.
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Take a look inside Rosie.apk under /res/drawable-port-mdpi. It contains the button bar.
Have had a look in there but can't see a button bar. I have found the actual bar - "common_mainnav_scroller1.png" under "Rosie.apk\res\drawable-normal-mdpi" but as I say that's just the bar that moves. I need to find out what makes it move in the way it does, so that I can stop it curving and make it move horizontal.
That'll Be in one of the xml file won't it ?
It's not in Rosie.apk, I remembered wrong.
It's inside com.htc.resources.apk in /system/framework.
Same folder inside the file as I told before.
In there are the Rosie .png images, but changing those won't alter the direction of the nav bar will it? As "MacaronyMax" said I think it's an XML file. I just don't know which one it is
Hello,
Has anyone found which xml file needs to be changed to get that indicator to move in a straight horizontal line? I've tried searching Rosie.apk, com.htc.resources.apk and framework-res.apk but I couldn't find it.
Had the same problem with sense-villain 12. I had a look but can't find the drawables needed
This guy has figured it out. See here.
He has also remapped the Rosie buttons. This is the third time I've found someone that has been able to do this, but no one on the GSM Hero side seems to be able to do it.
jpool81 said:
This guy has figured it out. See here.
He has also remapped the Rosie buttons. This is the third time I've found someone that has been able to do this, but no on the GSM Hero side seems to be able to do it.
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Well what he has done can probably be applied to the Hero. BTW in the drawable you will find some precious XML files hehe
C0mpu13rFr34k said:
Well what he has done can probably be applied to the Hero. BTW in the drawable you will find some precious XML files hehe
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I'm gonna rip it apart and mash it back together for the Hero and see what I get. Most probably a boot loop lol
jpool81 said:
I'm gonna rip it apart and mash it back together for the Hero and see what I get. Most probably a boot loop lol
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Hehe probably But why not just look for the XML file? Usually the names makes sense and you can see from there what to do
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Hehe probably But why not just look for the XML file? Usually the names makes sense and you can see from there what to do
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Thanks. Will take a look.
oorrr..... ask the dev which file he changed to make it do that much easier
i'll pm him now if you havent got it working yet
Might want to thank ihtpfp69
You've got to change these values , and doing so you can make it any shape you like
Code:
<integer name="scroll_x1">
<integer name="scroll_y1">
<integer name="scroll_x2">
<integer name="scroll_y2">
<integer name="scroll_x3">
<integer name="scroll_y3">
(he didn't say what file that was in but im sure it can't be too hard to find , oh and im guessing thats stock
Thanks. I got a response from him also. The file is integers.xml and should be located inside the Rosie.apk \res\values-normal
Will look at this once I have also sorted the remapping of the Rosie buttons and some other stuff.
@macaroniMax and @jpool81
Wow, thanks you guys. That was REALLY helpful. Let me see if I can get it to change on my HTC Desire!
This is another great thread with lots of helpful information: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=697994
Great. Would be good to know of the result. It's good that Rosie can be changed in this way, although is quite complex at times, but once figured out It might make me revert back to it from AOSP.
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Great. Would be good to know of the result. It's good that Rosie can be changed in this way, although is quite complex at times, but once figured out It might make me revert back to it from AOSP.
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Well, I can confirm that it works. Here's a screen dump of my phone.
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As you can see, the current screen bar moves in a straight horizontal line as we switch screens (it's on screen 2 in the screenshot).
This was the only change I wanted and all I did was to make scroll_y1 and scroll_y3 equal to scroll_y2 (oh, in case you're wondering, the main launcher icon has also been changed in com.htc.resources, but that's not relevant to this thread).
ADDENDUM:
If you want to change integers.xml, simply opening Rosie.apk in 7-zip will not work because the res/values* folders are compiled when the apk is built and 7-zip will not be able to show them to you. This means you can't drag and drop the modified files as you can with png resource files. So, you need to decompile the apk first. To do this, I followed the excellent guide posted here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=697994.
One odd problem was that when I rebuilt the apk as described in that thread using the command:
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apktool build Rosie
it was missing the security certificates (this is not a problem with the guide as it clearly says "make sure you sign the finished apk"). Since the security certificates are missing, simply pushing the apk to /system/app will not work (it will fail with an error about no valid signatures being found). On a side note, I found this strange because I read somewhere that Android does not check security certificates for system apps. Anyway...
If you follow that thread (the URL I posted) to its end, you'll find that someone else had the same problem. The solution suggested was to first sign the apk, create an update.zip, sign the update.zip and then install it using recovery mode. Strangely, this did not work for me (it seems to have worked for the poster who reported the problem in the other thread). I guess YMMV. My logcat shows that Android compares the signature of Rosie.apk against signatures for other system apps (shared_uid) and they don't match.
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Apparently, the following method has side-effects because I find that I cannot delete desktop shorcuts after the change. PLEASE DO NOT FOLLOW THE METHOD DESCRIBED BELOW!!!
So, I took the easy way out. I simply copied over the classes.dex and resources.arsc generated by
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apktool build Rosie
to the original apk file (which had the original certificates to match the other system apps in the ROM I was using). I think this method will work as long as the total number and names of the files remain the same.
Just thought I'd put this down in case anyone else has the same problem.
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I played with a couple hero ROM's back in the day, but have been running Cyanogen for a while.
Due to the 2.1 ROMs floating around I figured I would check out the old Hero ROMS to see if they picked up speed... and they have. A LOT.
My only issue is that the two ROMs I tried doesnt have a real flip clock anymore. They are the same as the weather widget app. Before you could actually watch them flip around. Also, in the past, everytime you went to the home sceen showing the weather widget it would go animated. Now you have to give it a vertical swipe to see it do its thing.
What gives?
HTC did an update to help with the speed of the Sense UI (removal of the flipping animation from the clock among other things)
Is there anything I can do to get the old flip clock back. That was half the reason of running a hero ROM.
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Is there anything I can do to get the old flip clock back. That was half the reason of running a hero ROM.
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Can't you just flash one of the old ROMs you used to use?
There is a paid app on the market that looks just like it, I think it cost like $.99 or $1.99.
Theres another app called Flip Clock but its just that. It flips though
meh, the features kind of useless anyways, slows down the phone for a flip animation lol...
yeah true.
mylostlonelysoul said:
There is a paid app on the market that looks just like it, I think it cost like $.99 or $1.99.
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Doesn't flip. It just looks like a flip clock
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Theres another app called Flip Clock but its just that. It flips though
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I did check that out and it does flip when the time changes, but the old Sense flip clock was 10x better as it flipped several times basically whenever you looked at it
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meh, the features kind of useless anyways, slows down the phone for a flip animation lol...
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Oh so true. But then again, what is the point of multi-touch when you can zoom with one finger?
Its cool and I like it. lol.
Ok so I found this in an old thread
"go find the old one that has all of the animations you like then extract the .zip folder then go to system, framework, then find framework-res.apk, extract that, then click on it, then go to res, then anim, and theres all your animations."
I found an old ROM with the flip clock and I want to put it into MLIGN's as his seems to run the best/fastest on my phone. Does anyone know what he means by "then go to res, then anim"? Can't I simply replace the framework-res.apk in MLIGN's?
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Doesn't flip. It just looks like a flip clock
I did check that out and it does flip when the time changes, but the old Sense flip clock was 10x better as it flipped several times basically whenever you looked at it
Oh so true. But then again, what is the point of multi-touch when you can zoom with one finger?
Its cool and I like it. lol.
Ok so I found this in an old thread
"go find the old one that has all of the animations you like then extract the .zip folder then go to system, framework, then find framework-res.apk, extract that, then click on it, then go to res, then anim, and theres all your animations."
I found an old ROM with the flip clock and I want to put it into MLIGN's as his seems to run the best/fastest on my phone. Does anyone know what he means by "then go to res, then anim"? Can't I simply replace the framework-res.apk in MLIGN's?
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oh, good idea! I'll try it if it works for you!
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Ok so I found this in an old thread
"go find the old one that has all of the animations you like then extract the .zip folder then go to system, framework, then find framework-res.apk, extract that, then click on it, then go to res, then anim, and theres all your animations."
I found an old ROM with the flip clock and I want to put it into MLIGN's as his seems to run the best/fastest on my phone. Does anyone know what he means by "then go to res, then anim"? Can't I simply replace the framework-res.apk in MLIGN's?
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No you can't just replace as the framework controls more than just animations, it controls just about evry aspect of Android's UI and android would brek if it did not have the correct framework-res.By open up res then anim, he means rename framework-res.apk as framework-res.zip, unzip it and you'll find what you're looking for
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No you can't just replace as the framework controls more than just animations, it controls just about evry aspect of Android's UI and android would brek if it did not have the correct framework-res.By open up res then anim, he means rename framework-res.apk as framework-res.zip, unzip it and you'll find what you're looking for
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oh ok. That makes more Sense (lol). If I did that would I need to resign anything? If I do, is it the framework-res.apk, the final update.zip file, or both. (I have never done any of that BTW)
Would it be better just to replace the files somehow through adb or via the console just to see if it works?
Also, what is the worse case scenario with all of this? I can't brick it right? What makes sense to me is the worse I would have to do is boot into recovery and re-flash the ROM.
Thanks a lot! You guys are awesome!
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oh ok. That makes more Sense (lol). If I did that would I need to resign anything? If I do, is it the framework-res.apk, the final update.zip file, or both. (I have never done any of that BTW)
Would it be better just to replace the files somehow through adb or via the console just to see if it works?
Also, what is the worse case scenario with all of this? I can't brick it right? What makes sense to me is the worse I would have to do is boot into recovery and re-flash the ROM.
Thanks a lot! You guys are awesome!
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I don't think you could brick, it doesn't affect your spl, radio, or recovery..
Ok, I hope I did this right.
I opened up the framework-res.apk on both MLIGN's and JAC's 1.6r2a as I am told that has the old flip clock. I couldn't tell which .xml would make it flip. There were a lot more xml's in MLIGN's than JACS by the way. I took all of the xml's from JAC's and pasted them into MLIGN's so it replaced them.
I then re zip'ed framework-res.apk and signed them using Stericson's signing bat file here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=473580
From there I just put it into the update file for maps v3.4. That way I wouldn't need to make a new update-script file and it kills two birds with one stone. Then I resigned that.
Does that sound right? What about the CERT.RSA, CERT.SF, AND MANIFEST.MF files? They seem to be different in each update.zip file I come across.
Edit: After fooling around a little bit more, I found out that the CERT.RSA, CERT.SF, and MANIFEST.MF changed when I signed the files! So I understand that now. I guess my only question/issue is if it is ok, that I changed a bunch of the xml files in framework-res.apk/res/amin/ when I think I should have only changed the ones pertaining to the flip clock. I just dont know how to tell which ones those are.
i did this for the hero, maybe it helps
see here, the flipclock is a widget. i deodexed the file from the old rom, now it works on the latest released roms for the hero.
Animating Flip Clock Widget
I have a clock widget with a real animating flip, which does not require sense. Check my thread.
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I'm seeing a lot of screenshots with notification trays that are clear or translucent and I"m wondering how to do that... is it something you can change with a setting or are notification trays like other part of themes where you pick a different notification tray and install using the update.zip method and you can't just edit or change the opacity of your current tray/shade? Also is there some place where I can go that I can pick through several trays/shades? Any guidance on this is greatly appreciated.
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I'm seeing a lot of screenshots with notification trays that are clear or translucent and I"m wondering how to do that... is it something you can change with a setting or are notification trays like other part of themes where you pick a different notification tray and install using the update.zip method and you can't just edit or change the opacity of your current tray/shade? Also is there some place where I can go that I can pick through several trays/shades? Any guidance on this is greatly appreciated.
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are you referring to the DOCKS at the bottom of screens? or do you specifically mean the notification panels when you pull down the notification statusbar?
if you are looking for docks and have an eclair or froyo rom- you can download launcherpro from the market or online at launcherpro.com; then you can install the following by just downloading them from here or any place you find docks.
http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/9451596/1/Android Stuff/LauncherPro Docks?h=1c63c1
No not the dock I specifically mean the notification panel/status bar...
itpromike said:
No not the dock I specifically mean the notification panel/status bar...
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ok well as far as notification panel transparency, jaguirre1231 referred me to this page about it. i haven't used it yet personally because i dont really care much about it, but it should help you.
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/xeudoxus/47283-release-xultimate.html
it's the froyo transparency fix. goodluck .
u could just go old school and edit status_bar_background.png and status_bar_close_on.0.png in the drawable folder...
Adamsville MITM said:
u could just go old school and edit status_bar_background.png and status_bar_close_on.0.png in the drawable folder...
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ah true i forgot about that new png that is in froyo roms. (the second one which is the png behind the first one). that's actually much easier.
Anything like this for 2.1?
its exactly the same. they didnt rewrite and rename file names from 2.1 to 2.2..just find the png's you want from one theme and apply them to the framework however you know how to.
hell, i've taken images from Sense roms for HTC phones for my droid..
MYxdaUSERNAME said:
its exactly the same. they didnt rewrite and rename file names from 2.1 to 2.2..just find the png's you want from one theme and apply them to the framework however you know how to.
hell, i've taken images from Sense roms for HTC phones for my droid..
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i don't know if you've ever done any themes or where you're getting your info from, but that second image that he is referring to does not exist in 2.1, which is why so many of us had problems trying to make the notification panels transparent for the experion theme when the idea was first intro'ed. now, if you're telling him, that he can magically just drop that png in there when it serves no function, then i'd like to see it happen, lol. logically speaking, that is like saying, let's name this file poop.png and make it transparent and expect it to become transparent for that panel. just saying...
opasha said:
i don't know if you've ever done any themes or where you're getting your info from, but that second image that he is referring to does not exist in 2.1, which is why so many of us had problems trying to make the notification panels transparent for the experion theme when the idea was first intro'ed. now, if you're telling him, that he can magically just drop that png in there when it serves no function, then i'd like to see it happen, lol. logically speaking, that is like saying, let's name this file poop.png and make it transparent and expect it to become transparent for that panel. just saying...
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So are you saying transparent notification background can only be done on Froyo? Did you ever get it to work on the Experion theme?
Anymore ideas guys? I know this can be done on some level because I've seen this in many pictures in the home screen screenshot forum.
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So are you saying transparent notification background can only be done on Froyo? Did you ever get it to work on the Experion theme?
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Which experion theme are you speaking of?
volcomdesigns said:
Which experion theme are you speaking of?
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the first one that you were involved in (donut version) and the second one (eclair version). g1_lucky had asked both myself and david1171 about the notification panels countless times and how to make them transparent, and there was no way of doing so because that second image did not exist with that name. if it did exist, it was not in the framework folder, and at the time probably had to do with some xml for it to work. if you guys solved it, then go ahead and explain to this kid how you did so because to my knowledge there was never any such png in either donut or eclair frameworks.
I don't know how it's done, but I have a metamorph theme on my phone that gives me a transparent notifications pulldown. I'm on 2.1
E_man5112 said:
I don't know how it's done, but I have a metamorph theme on my phone that gives me a transparent notifications pulldown. I'm on 2.1
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interesting. can you please upload/post that metamorph here so i can crack it open and see what file is responsible for allowing it to be transparent. thanks .
opasha said:
the first one that you were involved in (donut version) and the second one (eclair version). g1_lucky had asked both myself and david1171 about the notification panels countless times and how to make them transparent, and there was no way of doing so because that second image did not exist with that name. if it did exist, it was not in the framework folder, and at the time probably had to do with some xml for it to work. if you guys solved it, then go ahead and explain to this kid how you did so because to my knowledge there was never any such png in either donut or eclair frameworks.
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Oh, I wondered about that, but wasn't sure if you were speaking of the theme I was involved in. Any progress with that by the way? Lucky kinda just disappeared on me some time ago, and the project died to my knowledge. I remember this issue coming up in the past, and I agree, I don't recall ever seeing any such image in the initial framework. To my recollection, it was a issue that never had been solved.
opasha said:
interesting. can you please upload/post that metamorph here so i can crack it open and see what file is responsible for allowing it to be transparent. thanks .
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I agree! I would like to see this as well, as I am really quite interested.
Samset Rom for the i9000 had it as well. I flashed my Captivate to the i9000 Rom and then flashed the Samset update.zip. Check it out in the appropriate forum.
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keredini said:
Samset Rom for the i9000 had it as well. I flashed my Captivate to the i9000 Rom and then flashed the Samset update.zip. Check it out in the appropriate forum.
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you would need to be more specific because his current samset rom 1.9 does not show any transparency in regards to what we are discussing. it would be helpful if you posted the actual thread's link here. thanks.
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you would need to be more specific because his current samset rom 1.9 does not show any transparency in regards to what we are discussing. it would be helpful if you posted the actual thread's link here. thanks.
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I thought you were referring the pull-down notification panel and the ability to make it's background transparent. If so, Samset does that. Here is the Samset thread, look at th second picture in the first post for an example:
h++p://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=724576
MetaMorph Minimalistic Mod v1.2 also does this:
h++p://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=760106
keredini said:
I thought you were referring the pull-down notification panel and the ability to make it's background transparent. If so, Samset does that. Here is the Samset thread, look at th second picture in the first post for an example:
h++p://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=724576
MetaMorph Minimalistic Mod v1.2 also does this:
h++p://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=760106
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I have a feeling we are talking about the actual status bar.
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Hi.
This thread was initially about changing the font colour which I have since achieved, but run in to a couple more issues that I can't seem to figure out. The image I've used for my notification area is set at 80% transparency in photoshop, but when viewed on the phone it's a solid image. I've tried creating a new image but get the same result.
I've used an image from my other theme which shows the transparency on my other theme but not this. I've used an image from another theme which in their screenshot shows transparency, but doesn't in mine. I thought it might be the services.jar, but having used the one from the other theme it's still the same, solid black on my phone, so I'm a little stumped?
I've also changed the stat_notify_sms image in contacts.apk, but it shows the default image when I get a message?
Like I said I'm not a noob, but could do with some pointers or suggestions?
Thanks
this helps you http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4113483&postcount=2
rori~ said:
this helps you http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4113483&postcount=2
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Thanks for the link, but I've still not managed to change it. Look at the image, to add code after the next instance of 00 00 1c puts me on the next line, when I do that I just get boot loops.
Sorted it, finally. I pulled each statusbar file from layout and went through them, so I've sorted the statusbar and the notification area. Could you point me in the direction of the operator text in the notification area?
XperiaX10iUser said:
Sorted it, finally. I pulled each statusbar file from layout and went through them, so I've sorted the statusbar and the notification area. Could you point me in the direction of the operator text in the notification area?
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should be statusbar_expanded.xml
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should be statusbar_expanded.xml
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Thanks for the suggestion, but I've been through all the statusbar xml's but still no change.
What am I missing.
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its in: status_bar_expanded.xml
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its in: status_bar_expanded.xml
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You're right, I couldn't see for looking.
Thanks for the assist!
Need a touch more help, in my eagerness to change the font colour I've changed something but don't know what. The image I've used for the notification backdrop I've set at 80% transparency, but on the phone it's showing as a solid image? which obviously isn't the look I'm after.
Any help as always, will be much appreciated.
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Need a touch more help, in my eagerness to change the font colour I've changed something but don't know what. The image I've used for the notification backdrop I've set at 80% transparency, but on the phone it's showing as a solid image? which obviously isn't the look I'm after.
Any help as always, will be much appreciated.
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you set 80% transp. in photoshop?
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you set 80% transp. in photoshop?
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Yes, I've done the same thing I've done with other themes but for some reason it's not showing the transparency on the phone this time round...
Hi.
Had to to start from scratch due to Zdzihu releasing a beta2 for the X10, but this time round I'm having new trouble, I've edited the files but my operator text and clock is still showing black text. Can someone take a look at my files, I've checked and double checked but still I've got black text. Any help would be much appreciated.
I've attached my statusbar xmls from layout and my smali files.
Check out this thread-
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831715
Hope this helps
dully79 said:
Check out this thread-
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831715
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Thanks, but the reason I'm asking is because I have already changed my smali file to white, but see no change, where as before I did, and I've changed my files in res/layout too, and while my notifications are white, the carrier remains gray, and can't figure out why it worked before but isn't doing now.
Thanks for the link, but doesn't really help me understand what the problem is now.
XperiaX10iUser said:
Thanks for the link, but doesn't really help me understand what the problem is now.
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Sorry, i thought point 3 might have helped.
You could try applying the original framework, see if changes apply, then re-applying your mod again.
I resolved a similar issue a few days back with that method, seems it just needed a kick up the arse.
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Sorry, i thought point 3 might have helped.
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That's why I've uploaded the files hoping some could take a look because I've changed every file like I did before, but the clock and the carrier text refuses to change, and don't really want to start from scratch for a third time.
As far as i know from cooking themes for dell streak, the rom itself needs to be set to allow transparent status bar etc... i presume you're working on the x10? If so to set the rom you're bootloader would have to be unlocked to customise a deoxidised rom, then you can have transparent built into themes. Please correct me if I'm wrong, its info i have read and hopefully will help you too
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As far as i know from cooking themes for dell streak, the rom itself needs to be set to allow transparent status bar etc... i presume you're working on the x10? If so to set the rom you're bootloader would have to be unlocked to customise a deoxidised rom, then you can have transparent built into themes. Please correct me if I'm wrong, its info i have read and hopefully will help you too
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Hi.
I'm not trying to make the statusbar transparent, I'm trying to make the statusbar font white, but what worked for me before just isn't working now and I can't figure it out. Any one who checks the files I've uploaded can see they have all been edited accordingly but the font colour just wont change.
The rom I'm trying mod is in beta stage 2, and the reason I'm having to start again is because the services.jar has changed from beta 1, and having changed the only instance of 0x100 in StatusBarIcon.smali, nothing is changing, so think I maybe missing something, but need a theming pro to take a look and point out what that might be. I've followed stericsons guide, I've watched TheFXNs vid, I've read dullys link, none of which are of any help with this issue, because I know I've edited what needs editing, but still stuck with black font in the statusbar.
There's a $10 or £5 donation for anyone who helps resolve this as I'm past the point of frustration now.
Take a look here
http://androidforums.com/droid-all-...notification-clock-pull-down-text-colors.html
Its a really good guide and whilst you've hit a brick wall you may find reading a different way might highlight the error
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also http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=908270
Just some good old candy with lots of Transparency. Thought I would share my theme I use. This is made for the Virtuous 2.35.0 from the UOT Kitchen and graphic changes.
Thanks to M10 tools, Liamstears, kalagas, Capy and Virtuos team. May have to mount data and system in recovery before flashing. HTC weather lockscreen background modded, Htc People, mail, freindstream, weather widgets transparent. Status bar transparent. Plenty of color icon changes and alittle bit more.
Link dropbox.
Virtuous_Glass_Blue.zip
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
thanks for creating such awesome themes.
could you plz make just the separate mods for just dialer/ transparency in rosie/status bar/notifications pull down or, even just those amazing pop-ups (whichever is possible would be greatly appreciated )
Hi trock62, great work!!!
I've got a question about the "Personalize" button on the home screen. The one next to Phone. It has the Personalize icon but on button press it loads the internet app. Is this by design?
Also I've been looking for a better locking ring but can't seem to find one that works with VU 2.35, there are plenty that work with Android 2.3.4 but not in VU. Is there something about VU that causes a problem?
Thanks for a great theme!!!
Personalize button is set in the tweaks to an app of your choice. Change the lock ring is is fusion and idlescreenbase.sold using m10 tools
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Running on a mt4g and looking great. Really nice work. Thank you.
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Very nice theme. I really like the spirit of transparency.
How can you put the wallpaper on the desktop lockscreen weather?
Again thank you for the great job.
steftolo said:
Very nice theme. I really like the spirit of transparency.
How can you put the wallpaper on the desktop lockscreen weather?
Again thank you for the great job.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1160206
1. Image needs to be resized to EXACTLY 540x960. You can do this in any image editor.
2. Flip the image upside down.
3. The images MUST be PNG format.
Once you have this done, you want to grab the IdleScreen_Weather.apk out of the rom youre usings zip folder. Its located in system/apps. Once you get the apk, you want to open up m10 and click load file. Navigate and select the IdleScreen_Weather.apk.
Once this loads, you want to click the tab that says m10 Files. At the bottom of the screen, youll see where it says Decode Images, make sure you check that box.
You want to double click the Lockscreen_weather_bg.m10. It will ask if you want to decompile it. Click yes. At this point, youll be brought to the next tab which is Editor.
From here you want to expand until you see Textures. Under there you will see three spots labeled Texture. Click that and it will bring up an image to the right. Right click on this image and click "Show in Explorer". You will see three png files in here. You want to replace each one with the images you created earlier. This is important though. Make sure you copy the name of each file youre replacing EXACTLY. Im not responsible for any errors you make on renaming.
Once you get all three of the images replaced, go back to start and then save .apk Make sure to use the same name.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1160206
1. Image needs to be resized to EXACTLY 540x960. You can do this in any image editor.
2. Flip the image upside down.
3. The images MUST be PNG format.
Once you have this done, you want to grab the IdleScreen_Weather.apk out of the rom youre usings zip folder. Its located in system/apps. Once you get the apk, you want to open up m10 and click load file. Navigate and select the IdleScreen_Weather.apk.
Once this loads, you want to click the tab that says m10 Files. At the bottom of the screen, youll see where it says Decode Images, make sure you check that box.
You want to double click the Lockscreen_weather_bg.m10. It will ask if you want to decompile it. Click yes. At this point, youll be brought to the next tab which is Editor.
From here you want to expand until you see Textures. Under there you will see three spots labeled Texture. Click that and it will bring up an image to the right. Right click on this image and click "Show in Explorer". You will see three png files in here. You want to replace each one with the images you created earlier. This is important though. Make sure you copy the name of each file youre replacing EXACTLY. Im not responsible for any errors you make on renaming.
Once you get all three of the images replaced, go back to start and then save .apk Make sure to use the same name.
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Thank you, but I do not think it was as complicated
Nice
Virtuous unity v2.3.5
i applied the theme on virtuous 2.37 where the photo widget was resised correctly but the theme seems to applie the old unresised photo widget ,thanks if you can fix it
nice theme tx
could I have circular battery please?
link
why link dont work???
Okay, let me start by saying that I know there are other threads here that discuss status bar transparency. I've read them... twice. I know there are guides for themeing, I know that those guides discuss making the status bar transparent. I know that others have posted flashable ZIP files with transparent status bars in them. That said, posting a link to a thread that talks about how to accomplish this probably won't help me. Telling me to decompile SystemUI and modify the StatusBarService.smali file and modifying the status bar .9s probably won't help me. I've been there and I've done that and it doesn't work, maybe it's Android 2.3.7? Maybe it's my ROM (Oxygen)? Maybe it's my launcher? I don't know. But, if someone could help me figure it out, I would appriciate it - likely in the form of a donation
Lastly, let me point out that I have the notification pulldown area transparent. What I want is the status bar. The bar at the top of the screen where the clock, battery icon, connection icons and such are displayed. There seems to be a little confusion as to the notification pulldown and the status bar, so I wanted to clear that up
Okay. Here is what I'm dealing with, what I've done thus far, and what I want.
I'd like to have exactly what user gimj01 has posted, like this:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Here is the thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1031106
To try and accomplish this, I've done the following:
1. Decompile SystemUI.apk
2. Using Notepad ++ I edit the StatusBarService.smali. I search for the line "invoke-direct/range {v0 .. v5}, Landroid/view/WindowManager$LayoutParams;-><init>(IIIII)V" and right above it is "const/4 v5, 0x2" I change this to "const/4 v5, -0x3"
3. I then save the StatusBarService.smali file and recompile the SystemUI.apk. I then sign it. (All using APKManager 5)
4. Then, I replace the META INF folder in the new SystemUI.apk with the folder from the original.
5. I then copy the .9s for the status bar from the downloaded SystemUI.apk (from the post linked above) and paste them into my new SystemUI.apk. I use ADB and push it back to the phone.
That's it. This process causes the status bar to disappear. Oh, the .9s I'm copying over are:
status_bar_background.9.png
status_bar_close_on.9.png
statusbar_background.9.png
title_bar_portrait.9.png
title_bar_shadow.9.png
So, then I tried just modifying the StatusBarService.smali file as stated in step 2 above. Recompiling and pushing back to the phone. Result = status bar disappears.
So, then I tried just copying over the .9s as stated in step 5 above. In this case, there is no need to recompile, so I just push SystemUI to the phone. Result = blurry icons and text (see the attached image). But, the background is still black.
So then, for grins, I tried editing the status_bar.xml file and changing android:background="android:background="@drawable/statusbar_background"" to android:background="@android:color/transparent". Result = blurry icons and text (see the attached image). But, again, the background is still black.
Because the result of the final steps (changing the XML file, swapping the images only) is still a black background, I feel like I'm missing something. Like Android is pulling that black from somewhere, I just don't know where!!
Now, if I'm crazy (and at this point, I'm feeling that way) and this can't be done, okay. But, I really think it can, I can't imagine that Android changed that much between 2.3.3 and 2.3.7. So if you can help and are willing to, I would appriciate it.
First off, let me say I am in no way a themeing whiz (or even very good for that matter) but I'll try to help as best as I can.
Another thing I should say is that the link to the thread doesn't work.
Those things said, let me see if I understand the whole scope of what you're trying to do:
Based on the files you listed as the nine patches you're trying to change, you want every instance of the status bar to be transparent (including when the notification pane is open?). In my experience, a disappearing status bar indicates an issue in the file that causes the system to just not open it, so there must be an issue somewhere. Usually, again in my limited experience, this is because of a stupid error that you just missed.
I'm not sure you'd have to edit the smali files to execute this, but I could very easily be wrong. I'm going to do some research and check back in a little bit to see if you were able to fix the link so I can see the file you were referencing.
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First off, let me say I am in no way a themeing whiz (or even very good for that matter) but I'll try to help as best as I can.
Another thing I should say is that the link to the thread doesn't work.
Those things said, let me see if I understand the whole scope of what you're trying to do:
Based on the files you listed as the nine patches you're trying to change, you want every instance of the status bar to be transparent (including when the notification pane is open?). In my experience, a disappearing status bar indicates an issue in the file that causes the system to just not open it, so there must be an issue somewhere. Usually, again in my limited experience, this is because of a stupid error that you just missed.
I'm not sure you'd have to edit the smali files to execute this, but I could very easily be wrong. I'm going to do some research and check back in a little bit to see if you were able to fix the link so I can see the file you were referencing.
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Link in OP fixed. Here it is again:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1031106
In terms of scope, I have the notification area transparent, and right now, I could care less about how it looks when you pull it down. I'm interested in the status bar (just as it looks in the image in the OP) being clear. I hope that makes sense. I copied all of the .9s from the downloaded SystemUI to be sure I got what I needed, which was probably overkill, but I wanted to be sure. Really, I guess I would only need the statusbar_background.9.png to make what I am after work since the status_bar.xml file calls out that file specifically for the status bar background.
The reason I'm going after the smali files is because of this post (step 6.2):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9978779#post9978779
Okay from what I understand you would just need to make one file transparent, titlebar.png or something like that. I'll look into it more and let you know!
Nobody...., really?
Nothing? No ideas?
I think what he mentioned works. I made one or two status bar mods for personal reasons so ill give this a shot.
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Sorry got called into work that day and just got home. Didn't get a chance to figure it out.
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slimdizzy said:
I think what he mentioned works. I made one or two status bar mods for personal reasons so ill give this a shot.
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I don't have a titlebar.png file. The png files that I have are listed in the OP. When I change any of the images to be transparent - or even copy transparent images from another clear status bar, I get what I attached in the OP, basically, fuzzy text and icons in a still black status bar.
kenvan19 said:
Sorry got called into work that day and just got home. Didn't get a chance to figure it out.
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Well, I suppose you're excused
You could use the UOT Kitchen, and in the status bar section at the top, click the option to use a transparent status bar. Then in the first section, set the transparency to 0%. Then go and upload your frameworks.res.apk and your systemui.apk under system files and let it do it for you. I did mine that way. Just search UOT kitchen. I would post the link but I'm on my phone.
Statusbar_background.9.png is the image file.
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I got it! Not sure yet what I did, but I'll backtrack and figure that out.
Everytime I've gone to the Kitchen it says it isn't open... maybe I have a bad link?
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I got it! Not sure yet what I did, but I'll backtrack and figure that out.
Everytime I've gone to the Kitchen it says it isn't open... maybe I have a bad link?
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Your link probably isn't bad. When they close it it is because it gets backed up. When you get that message just refresh the page every few minutes until you get in.
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