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Change taskbar color

Hi Guys,
is it possible to change android (magic) taskbar color/theme for the device without root access?
I don't like the boring white, I want black taskbar with white font.
any suggestion will be appreciated .
thanks

I would like the same my device is rooted though

Draxter said:
I would like the same my device is rooted though
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dont think it is possible if you aren't rooted. If you are rooted open up the update.zip file you are using as your rom using 7-zip, go to where framework drawable folder is. Open status bar and change its colour, drop it back in and resign app. There are instructions how to do this in themes section of Dream.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=473580
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=471586 I use post number 6 the way i do it.

I'm using the Vodafone rom... I don't think I can get my update.zip from that? I rooted my device with haykuro's stuff in this tutorial.
http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=Magic_Rooting
I want to keep my Dutch XT9 so I can't flash anything else but smartphone france or my stock vodafone...

all the drawables should be in the root-me rom. open it and have a look for them.

But if they aren't I will brick my device by flashing a wrong framework...

no you wont. All you do is open it and drop in the .pngs you want, then resign it. they will be there in the rom- if not look at one of the other roms- Rogers, or daldroid will have them.
If it does go in to boot loop reboot into recovery and flash the last working rom you have until you figure out what went wrong. The only thing you are changing is the pngs. you shouldnt go intoa bootloop doing this- i have done a heap of theming for myself for the G1 and each time i got a boot loop it was cos i was playing around with services.jar and xml files. each time i just rebooted into recovery and reflashed previous working rom.

The thing is, I don't know which ROM I have... I have rooted my magic by using the android-dls tutorial with haykuro's stuff. There are still some vodafone relics left. I still have the vodafone shortcut, and i still have support for Dutch XT9.
http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=Magic_Rooting
I haven't made a Nandroid backup and I don't know how to make a backup either so... There is only one alternative, flashing Smartphone France firmware, it has Dutch support. I wouldn't mind trying out that one but that'll be the first time that I flash firmware onto my Magic so I'd like some guidance on MSN with that

Drawer
Im looking for the application drawer button in the res folder that is inside framework... found the status/notification bar and all icons but can't seem to find the app drawer button... i want to change it to a darker grey and make the notification bar black...

the app drawers are in launcher.apk

Easiest/safest way of changing the graphics I have found was to:
1. Connect your phone via USB and make sure you have the drivers installed
2. do adb remount
3. Do a adb pull on /system/framework/framework-res.apk for example
4. Open the apk with something like winrar etc
5. Locate the png files you want to change and extract them
6. make modifications to the files
7. pop back to the apk
8. do an adb push of the file back to the device
I've done this with fairly few apk's such as the launcher.apk and framework-res.apk and never had to resign the file =o)
The advantage is that you are using the file from your phone that you know works =o)) certain apk's don't even need a restart such as the Launcher.apk, I did alot of modding with the app drawer without ever needing to restart the phone.
This is good for changing the images but things like changing the clock color is ALOT harder, it requires you to edit the services.jar file with a hex editor =o(
Hope this helps.

Draxter said:
the app drawers are in launcher.apk
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Ok, i did find the file in the launcher.apk, i edited it and all the other files and now need to resign in linux... was looking for the SignApk.jar in the SDK and didn't find it... also tried JF's testsign.jar and didnt work... can anyone point me in the right direction so i can resign the file using test keys in linux.
Thanks,

If you just changed the png's you shouldn't have to resign it

fxn said:
If you just changed the png's you shouldn't have to resign it
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What about the hour and date font in the status bar... if i change the notification area to black it wont automatically switch to white text... do you know where i can find the parameters to change it?

Some of the text like notification texts etc are held in framework-res.apk xml files in the drawable folder if I remember correctly.
The clock is the difficult one as it is inside services.jar file, its a serious pain in the back side, the dream forum has more info about it but it involves opening up files in hex editor and changing the hex code directly there
I'll be having a look at this and see if I can make step by step guide of this but it is seriously a pain!

Any idea which XML's in framework-re.apk (or other location) hold the various notification font colour(s)?? I can't seem to find it.

[TUT] Build Metamorph themes on your phone

Go to market
Download mm, ninjamorph, silver edit, and astro.. While here pick up a random icon pack... (your first morph)
Open silver edit..pick new xml.. Here is a template. Replace the dashes - with less than/greater than < .. They won't show on xda
-?xml version="1.0"?-
-themename-Theme_Name-/themename-
-themeversion-1.x-/themeversion
-screenshot--/screenshot-
-author-that's you-/author-
-authorweblink--/authorweblink-
-phone-Samsung Vibrant-/phone
-rom-Stock-/rom-
-themedescription-whatever changes-/themedescription-
-item-your app.apk-/item-
-path-/system/app/-/path-
-description-changes the...-/description-
-item-framework-res.apk-/item-
-path-/system/framework/-/path-
-description-Morphs the ...-/description-
Open ninja morph, choose the apk you want to modify.. The images you want to change are in res folder in the drawable dir.. choose the icon and replace it with one out of the icon pack..
Open astro.. Go to android themes.. Make new directory, Theme_Name.. Open the workspace folder..this is where the changed apk is... Copy res folder.. Paste it inside Theme_Name.. Delete everything but drawable... Open the silver edit folder in astro and copy Theme_Name.xml and paste it with your new res folder... You just made a morph on your phone...
Open meta morph..start checks and chose existing... Click Theme_Name and Theme_Name.xml, apply all...
Your original images from your apk are in backup inside android themes...
Thanks stericson for 2 apps..
My phone has been flashed more than Girls Gone Wild..

I can't find silver edit in the market :/ .. i'm starting to think something is wrong with my market because I couldn't find simply lockscreen either.. :/

In the directions it says "Samsung_Vibrant" so is this just for the captivate or can you insert which ever phone you want?

sabo2000 said:
In the directions it says "Samsung_Vibrant" so is this just for the captivate or can you insert which ever phone you want?
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that's just the name of the phone he's editing..
its more of a header or a title if anything..

This will work for any device, on any android device... Just edit the xml to be compatible with your device..
Im hoping this could bring some would be themers out the wood works...
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App

Is metamorph able to put in modified XML files as well? If so, can you explain how this is done? I tried updating some XML files in framework-res.apk via metamorph with no luck...
If i compile + sign my own framework-res.apk, then it works. But i like to use it in metamorph instead so I can change things on the fly.

xDarKnighTx said:
Is metamorph able to put in modified XML files as well? If so, can you explain how this is done? I tried updating some XML files in framework-res.apk via metamorph with no luck...
If i compile + sign my own framework-res.apk, then it works. But i like to use it in metamorph instead so I can change things on the fly.
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That might be a problem with Super User or something.. That I've read about..

darkamikaze said:
That might be a problem with Super User or something.. That I've read about..
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do you recall where you read it? and is there some sort of workaround? or is it just not possible?

I think I read it in the meta morph topic in the android theme forum..there's another meta morph thread there
Sent from xdaApp - Captivate

Metamorph only replaces files... doesn't add new ones... so if its a new xml going to have to use an update.zip
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App

I did everything by the guide in the first post but when I try to install the theme in metamorph I get the error The theme you selected is invalid because the theme control file could be missing, or is not correctly written.
Any help would be much appreciated.

So, how to change GT540's font?

I've been trying for several days to change system fonts to the ubuntu font, and every tutorial I've come across doesn't work with my rooted GT540.
Has anybody managed to do that?
I tried using both update.zip methods and by means of applications... no luck with both methods.

fjsferreira said:
I've been trying for several days to change system fonts to the ubuntu font, and every tutorial I've come across doesn't work with my rooted GT540.
Has anybody managed to do that?
I tried using both update.zip methods and by means of applications... no luck with both methods.
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I couldn't get it to work either. I think the fonts are overwritten when the device is booted. Would be nice to change the fonts.

Finally, I got it working. Lg GT540 doesn't use droid font, but some other font named SJSans.ttf, wich is also on /system/fonts (I've never noticed this font there lol)
Just replace that font using root explorer. Just in case, fix permissions of replaced files to be like the other ones in that folder (I don't know if this is necessary though). Reboot.
Here's Ubuntu font family, with filenames ready to copy paste in /system/fonts.

It didn't work for me, some texts were readable but some weren't the clock wasn't showing..

TopGunBG said:
It didn't work for me, some texts were readable but some weren't the clock wasn't showing..
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It depends on the font you use, of course, and your language. If you use something like tahoma, everything should work, because this is a very complete font with support for many many characters and languages.
The ubuntu font works perfectly with Portuguese language.

I had to reupgrade and make a hard reset, the clock WAS missing! And my phone is set to English. I tryied the ubuntu fonts cuz i really like them nothing but trouble..

Ubuntu font pack works like a charm with Polish language, thanks a lot!

howdy guys - don't know how I ended up here, but if you're familiar with the regular method of changing fonts on android, the optimus is a bit different;
normal Clockopia.ttf is your SJGothicFull.ttf (this is the lockscreen clock)
normal DroidSans.ttf is your SJSans.ttf
normal DroidSans-Bold.ttf is your SJSans-Bold.ttf
I haven't tested this, but this should work for you guys with any font (you can even change the ones in my thread if you know how) Best of luck
Edit - again, if you know how, the new version of the comfortaa font is complete, so that should work as well, if not better than ubuntu.

I had same issue with clock going missing.
if your using root explorer.
hold down the font file you just move to system/font folder
select permission.
User - tick first(read) and second(write) box
Group - tick first(read) one only
Other - tick first(read) one only
so it should now look like
SJSans.ttf
[date here] rw-r--r--
restart and I got my clock text back along with my new font

lahan52 said:
I had same issue with clock going missing.
if your using root explorer.
hold down the font file you just move to system/font folder
select permission.
User - tick first(read) and second(write) box
Group - tick first(read) one only
Other - tick first(read) one only
so it should now look like
SJSans.ttf
[date here] rw-r--r--
restart and I got my clock text back along with my new font
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It worked, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

Any screens with that Ubunt font on board?? Cos it looks not so cool on my PC I would like to see this mounted at phone.

Changing fonts in ICS

Has anyone had luck changing fonts in ICS? I've tried the obvious app solutions, as well as flashable .zip's, and even renaming the desired font to the same one as is in the /system/fonts folder and replacing it that way. Ideas?

...probably falls under your "tried all the obvious" courses of action, but the only way I've ever universally changed the fonts is through jrummy's "Root Tools" ...though I haven't tried it on AOKP yet.

LifeInAnalog said:
...probably falls under your "tried all the obvious" courses of action, but the only way I've ever universally changed the fonts is through jrummy's "Root Tools" ...though I haven't tried it on AOKP yet.
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I think I finally got it. I had taken SonySketch (desired font) regular, bold, italic, and bold-italic, and masked each of them with the proper name found in the /system/fonts file and made them into a flashable .zip but this didn't fix it. Today, I just dropped all of them into a folder on my SD card, and used Root Browser to copy-paste them over from my SD to /system/fonts and rebooted...VIOLA! The entire phone has been changed. I'm going to try making a flashable .zip again though so that it's easier to share.
EDIT: Here are the new flashable .zip's. I just took the Steel Droid 5 .zip that was on my desktop and erased everything but the fonts file then duplicated it, keeping META-INF but replacing the stock fonts in the 2nd .zip with the renamed Sony Sketch fonts. Tell me how it goes if you're interested.

Absolute system or from toolbox will change your fonts to whatever you like
Sent from my XT862 using Tapatalk

olorolo said:
Absolute system or from toolbox will change your fonts to whatever you like
Sent from my XT862 using Tapatalk
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Have you tried this in ICS though? Because JRummy's Font Installer doesn't do the trick. No font installer has (Root Tools, ROM Toolbox, Font Installer, etc.) has done the trick yet on ICS. Only my renaming trick has done it for me on ICS. I know all of the switchers work on GB.

[Q] How to change default Font?

Hi,
how do I change the default Font on the HTC One? I tried Font Installer, iFont and Root Toolbox, but none of them works. My device is rooted btw.
Thanks!

amorph said:
Hi,
how do I change the default Font on the HTC One? I tried Font Installer, iFont and Root Toolbox, but none of them works. My device is rooted btw.
Thanks!
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Curious about this as well

i'm also curious about how this is possible..

My guess is that Sense is using it's own font from some HTC resources, rather than the usual Android system one. So the usual apps for switching this will be changing the wrong thing...
It'll probably require some Sense-decompiling stuff...
*Edit* well- maybe not. There's a whole bunch of Fonts in /system/fonts, maybe you're just changing the wrong one...

Try TrickDroid Roms Tweak package.There you can choose and install some Fonts.

You can change the default font before flash a custom rom.
I don't know how to make a update.zip so... here's my way(doing it on the PC).
1. Rename fonts which you want to use to;
"Roboto-Regular.ttf"
"Roboto-Bold.ttf"
"Roboto-BoldItalic.ttf"
"Roboto-Italic.ttf"
2. Open a custom rom with winrar.
3. Drag&Drop renamed fonts into system/fonts.
4. Flash.
If you use TrickDroid, skip 2,3,4 and do this;
1. Open TrickDroidThemes.zip with winrar.
2. Drag&Drop renamed fonts to additions/fonts/asap
3. Apply theme. (choose "asap", of course)
you can also disable the low battery beep sound
I hope it helps