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[Theme] HeTANG for VanillaEclair 5

This theme is for RaduG's ROM: VanillaEclair 5 - "Welcome to Prisneyland, Fish" (20/07/2010)
I do not plan on updating this further, but the images are there in the theme for someone to take on and port to future versions or other ROMs. Sorry to all that have been using it, but I don't have the time these days to keep on top of it.
It's a port from Manup's NexTANG theme, so all credit for this goes to him. You can check out his original version for the Nexus here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=685584.
I also found a Droid version. On this site you can downloaded the app/folder icons. I have not included them in my theme as am not a huge fan of them, but may include them in later or the final version - DroTANG - http://forums.swdroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=30
Please note: I do not have that much time to do this sort of thing so please do not bombard me with requests and bugs. I will try to update this but am not on any time schedule. If someone else wants to take this and run with it, by all means be my guest. What I have so far is enough for me
So... attached you will see what is themed so far. To achieve this look please follow the below:
Flash the attached theme 'HeTANG-VE5-0.4.zip' (see below the post) from whatever recovery you are using.
You will then need to change following to white text (or other) in Spare Parts, or as in VE5 - 'Settings > System':
Clock
Date
Carrier PLMN
Carrier SPN
Notifications ticker
No notification title
Ongoing notification title
Latest notification title
Items title
Items text
Items time
Then (if you wish) to complete the look apply the App Drawer icon to LauncherPro that you should most certainly be using , and the Wallpaper that can be found in the 'HeTANG-Extras.zip' file - These are just the files. Not a flashable zip.
I hope people will get some enjoyment out of this. Enjoy!
Change Log
0.4
- Themed drop down boxes
- Improved images on the popup dialogues for a better fit
0.3
- Themed more areas: popup boxes, check boxes, radio buttons etc...
- As an extra I have themed a version of the HTC_IME_Mod Keyboard. This is not part of the theme but within the 'HeTANG-Extras.zip' for those that want try it. Just install it using Astro or any other file manager app. Credit for this goes to gIMpSTa at http://www.gimpsta.com/
0.2
- Added themed Power Control widget
0.1
- Initial release
Notes for HeTANG

looks great, I'll try it later

flashed it and now waiting for boot up.
11min and it just hanged on HERO screen.
Pulled battery off and reflashed it and waited boot about 12 mins. nothing happens it just hangs on HERO screen. nandroid restoring now back to basic VE5b10RC. Theme sure looked nice but it wont boot on my hero.. :/

I suspect that the RaduG's latest changes to his ROM has caused this. As I said I used build7 as a base and because he's so fast )) with his updates I didn't really want to keep updating this every minute. So for those who do have trouble you will just have to wait until he gets a final version out and then I can update this accordingly.
Strange it didn't work though as the framework should still be identical as well as the apps that are themed.

Strange indeed. Anyone else tried flash this and with what results? Just want to know is the problem in my device or is it problem with wrong build number.
Anyway nice work trying to port this. There aren't too many themes to hero builds.
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Walto said:
Strange indeed. Anyone else tried flash this and with what results? Just want to know is the problem in my device or is it problem with wrong build number.
Anyway nice work trying to port this. There aren't too many themes to hero builds.
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I have updated the theme now to RaduG's latest 'RC build10'. This should work for you... if you're running that version, which I assume most people will be.

I looked at the original thread, but i couldn't tell, does this contain the icons aswell?

Deleted. Double post by me.

l0st.prophet said:
I looked at the original thread, but i couldn't tell, does this contain the icons aswell?
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Ah, no it doesn't. I didn't want to include them as I didn't really like them and didn't think people would want them. They can be downloaded from the original thread though and used via 'BetterCut' for example.
I may include them in the final version, but not sure yet.

jpool81 said:
Ah, no it doesn't. I didn't want to include them as I didn't really like them and didn't think people would want them. They can be downloaded from the original thread though and used via 'BetterCut' for example.
I may include them in the final version, but not sure yet.
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Forgive me if I am being stupid, but I can't see the link to download them?

l0st.prophet said:
Forgive me if I am being stupid, but I can't see the link to download them?
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Good shout. You can get them from here - http://forums.swdroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=30
Scroll down to... 'DroTANG_AndroidFolders-IconPack 5.22.2010'
I've not tried them in the theme but they're only icon files so go for it.

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Good shout. You can get them from here - http://forums.swdroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=30
Scroll down to... 'DroTANG_AndroidFolders-IconPack 5.22.2010'
I've not tried them in the theme but they're only icon files so go for it.
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Thanks, got em. There 72x72 but I'll given 'em a try (not got the patience to resize them all)

Thanks for your effort. Will wait upload.
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E: Flashed new one and it booted up and looks great. Thank you.
E2: After swapping colors to white refuses to boot.. trying again.

It worked great for me, thanks for the port!

Maybemy device doesn't like changing colors cos all works just fine till i reboot phone and have swapped textcolors to white. Very strange.. but Still GJ dude. Sadly my hero won't let me theme it

Walto said:
Maybemy device doesn't like changing colors cos all works just fine till i reboot phone and have swapped textcolors to white. Very strange.. but Still GJ dude. Sadly my hero won't let me theme it
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So the theme applies okay, it's just the text colours don't change once you have set them and rebooted?

I appreciate you've already said this will get updated as and when, but is there any plans for including some of the other styling? the only things that I have seen at the moment is popup menus aren't styled and the search widget isn't either. Not a big deal, just wondering

l0st.prophet said:
I appreciate you've already said this will get updated as and when, but is there any plans for including some of the other styling? the only things that I have seen at the moment is popup menus aren't styled and the search widget isn't either. Not a big deal, just wondering
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I may well give it a go. At first I did port all the images from the framework over but I just ended up with everything FC on me when trying to get into any of the menus and apps, so I think I need to do it bit by bit. Some of those .9 png files can be troublesome if not treated carefully, so just gonna take some time. Unfortunately there is no mdpi version of this theme from what I can see, so each image has to be resized

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I may well give it a go. At first I did port all the images from the framework over but I just ended up with everything FC on me when trying to get into any of the menus and apps, so I think I need to do it bit by bit. Some of those .9 png files can be troublesome if not treated carefully, so just gonna take some time. Unfortunately there is no mdpi version of this theme from what I can see, so each image has to be resized
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Well I don't know much about theming android, but I am a dab hand in Photoshop so if you wanna send me some files and target image sizes I'd be happy to help

l0st.prophet said:
Well I don't know much about theming android, but I am a dab hand in Photoshop so if you wanna send me some files and target image sizes I'd be happy to help
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Thanks The problem is for most of the files you need to look at the default image from VE5 then resize the one from Manup's version accordingly. This really has to be done one by one, as not all images are scaled down by the same percentage it seems. I'm still getting my head round it lol. I'll try and take more of a look into it soon and keep you posted on any developments. Appreciate the help though

SMS notification icon?

i've searched around a bit but i couldnt find a simple resolution to this issue...
i have always used SMS popup since my G1 days. i like the stock messaging app more than chomp or handcent and i also like the popup notification more than handcent/chomp. the only issue i have is the black notification icon on the black status bar is difficult to see. is there an easy way to switch that icon to something else? even if its just another color?

you can switch it, its "easy" and do-able. you can download the sms popup app. then pull that file to your computer. go into the res/drawable folder and find the icon for notifcation and change it to something else that's easier to see. maybe pull one from the other apps or roms, then resign the app and reinstall. the only bad thing is you will need to do this all the time whenever they have a new update. But with SMS popup, i've seen updates stop months ago, i dont think that app is kept updated so this may be a one time change for you which isnt that bad.

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i've searched around a bit but i couldnt find a simple resolution to this issue...
i have always used SMS popup since my G1 days. i like the stock messaging app more than chomp or handcent and i also like the popup notification more than handcent/chomp. the only issue i have is the black notification icon on the black status bar is difficult to see. is there an easy way to switch that icon to something else? even if its just another color?
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Its not really that difficult to switch, the only tools required are winrar/zip & android sdk pack. Download the Mms.apk (system/app folder) from your rom using astro file manager to your sdcard, copy the file to your laptop/pc, use winrar to open the .apk (drag and drop it on winrar window, dont unzip the apk), drag and drop the attached image in res/drawable-hdpi folder. Close Winrar. Using ADB (download google's android sdk package)
(go command prompt, cmd.exe in windows, cd c:/android_sdk_r05/tools (or wherever you have unzipped the sdk pack))
adb remount
adb push Mms.apk system/app/Mms.apk
(provided you have pasted your modded Mms.apk in the android_sdk_r05/tools folder)
If you can do that, you will have learned how to theme the whole rom yourself! Honestly learning this isnt at all tough unless you wanna do mods of the likes of cyanogen & paul'o

i thought i was going places but i hit a roadblock...
i downloaded the sms popup apk. tossed it into betterzip. changed the icon in the drawable folder. then i tried to extract it to my desktop and i got the error message "ERROR the file drawable could not be extracted. the pasword may be incorrect."
password? lol beats me
i guess once i figure that part out i take the extracted file and drop it in the android-sign app i downloaded to sign the app and reinstall?

ninjamorph on the market may be able to accomplish this as well, although i'm not sure..

i thought i had it this time....
i edited the drawables and compressed the package simply by using the ctrl key (on a mac) then i used the auto sign tool and that worked fine. gave me the signed.apk. tried to manually install through file manager and got "parse error. there is a problem parsing the package".

Using Metamorph for this modification might be easier.

I was in the same boat as courtstarr24, so using the info in this thread (along with mythamp's image that I slightly modified), I replaced the image in SMSPopup, resigned it and it worked!!I was really pleased because this is my first foray into modifying anything android-related (apart from installing custom ROMs and kernels etc).
So here it is.
It's fine for me using pershoot's .35 kernel and Geo411m's Blackbar v3.
If you want it with a different image, I can do that, but I'm no graphic artist so you'll have to provide me with the image!

Also, I couldn't find the apk on my phone. It wasn't in /system/app and I didn't know where else to look, so I downloaded from softpedia.
Anyone know where it might be?

@b0dge man youre a lifesaver! if you could help me i would be ecstatic! the image i want is attached to this post. thanks man!

I'm on it. Give me twenty minutes or so...
EDIT: Here you go.
I haven't tested it, but it should be exactly the same as mine but with your image.
I take no responsibility for your phone breaking (if it doesn't work) or you pissing your pants with glee (when it does)!
EDIT2: Removed broken app.

thanks for helping me out here but i have bad news...the first apk you posted worked fine. i uninstalled and tried the second one and it wont install. i get the "application not installed" error message.

Ok.. I'm trying to work out why I can't resign it properly.
Sorry it didn't work, but take heart! We have the technology...

Right, this one works for me.. Sorry, should've tested it before posting.
Apparently I needed to delete the META INF folder then resign...

THANK YOU! thanks you so much for this. i know it wasnt a big project but i appreciate it none the less! i'd be stuck with the black on black notification without ya haha

Any time...

[Q] themers: why do i suck at ninjamorph?

hello all. wondering if any of you might be able to help me out.
i am using the cyanogenmod 6 nightlies.
i used ninjamorph to make a custom framework-res.apk so that i could have the transparent lockscreen morph and the grey status bar morph for froyo. every time i update my rom i have to reapply, obviously. it seems to work fine, i do get those things.
the weird thing is, every time i apply my custom framework (by re-finishing it from within ninjamorph) i lose all of my accounts. my google, facebook, and twitter info is gone and i have lost all of my contacts (which makes sense).
so my question is this: why the hell is it doing that?
my only thought, because this doesn't happen when you apply normal morphs, is that my error is in re-finishing the project every time. if this is the case, i change my question to "how do i actually do it the right way?" i was under the impression that ninjamorph let you actually build morphs initially, now that i see that it doesn't, how do i create a real morph out of my framework file?
p.s. i was told that the framework wouldn't change between cm nightlies unless they made a fairly obvious update to it, which seems to be true. i assume that something would break horrifically if i was using the wrong file. i know the framework-res file from my original work was not bad, i made it from rc2.
thanks in advance everyone.

[REQ] Clear Touchwiz Dock

I have been looking and looking for a way to do this myself, but I'm at a lose. If someone could whip this up that would be great! I hate the black (grayish) color of the dock. Would love for it to be clear!

I will look into this after I get less hung over. 2 hours of sleep.
Who uses the tw launcher anyhow? I am just pulling your leg, it should be a simple png or 9png.

frostman89 said:
I will look into this after I get less hung over. 2 hours of sleep.
Who uses the tw launcher anyhow? I am just pulling your leg, it should be a simple png or 9png.
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Yeah that's what I was thinking, but I can not for the life of me find where it is it's odd that the Vibrant/Captivate have a different TW launcher then what we do, same with the Epic.

I actually like tw. They buddies widget rocks. Would love the clear bottom bar
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find anything? sorry... I'm working on a "clear" theme and this is one of the last things I need, and I'm just really excited to get some themes rolling

taypotts said:
find anything? sorry... I'm working on a "clear" theme and this is one of the last things I need, and I'm just really excited to get some themes rolling
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I was passed out until just a bit ago. Extracted the apk as we speak.
EDIT: ok i replaced every possible image that is associated with the dock bg. It appears that its controlled by an xml and set to black with transparency. I don't feel like digging through all the xmls to figure out right now, maybe someone more experienced can look through it.

frostman89 said:
I was passed out until just a bit ago. Extracted the apk as we speak.
EDIT: ok i replaced every possible image that is associated with the dock bg. It appears that its controlled by an xml and set to black with transparency. I don't feel like digging through all the xmls to figure out right now, maybe someone more experienced can look through it.
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Damn it! I was thinking it was a xml but I was hoping it wasn't..

Still waiting........ haha!

I'm no expert but I believe the two files that need to be edited are \res\layout-land\launcher.xml and \res\layout-port\launcher.xml . Change the android:color to @android:color/transparent under the section com.sec.android.app.twlauncher.MenuDrawer .
I'm having trouble recompiling the apk so that my phone recognizes it as a launcher.
Like I said I'm no expert so I'm not 100% on this.

sbrissen said:
I'm no expert but I believe the two files that need to be edited are \res\layout-land\launcher.xml and \res\layout-port\launcher.xml . Change the android:color to @android:color/transparent under the section com.sec.android.app.twlauncher.MenuDrawer .
I'm having trouble recompiling the apk so that my phone recognizes it as a launcher.
Like I said I'm no expert so I'm not 100% on this.
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I can't even find the files that you are talking about? Are you talking about the framework-res.apk or the twlauncher.apk?

maybe I'm way off then, I was looking in the TouchWiz30Launcher.apk in /system/app

sbrissen said:
maybe I'm way off then, I was looking in the TouchWiz30Launcher.apk in /system/app
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No, I was wrong.... haha! my bad. I was thinking it would be in the framework folder, but it actually might be in the system/app
Have you tried to copy the .apk to your Sd Card then change it to .zip
-unzip the file
-mess get the new .xml compiled from that
-use the app "Ninjamorph" to put the new .xml file back
Think that would help you?
Edit: Or just upload the new .xml files that you mess around with and I'll see if I can get it pushed in

OH! I also failed to mention that it is 100% a .xml file. I've messed around with some morphs that are out for other galaxy s phones and the background is still that ugly gray/black thing.

I keep getting FC's when i swap them out, I'll post the xml's. -port goes to layout-port and -land goes to layout-land. remove the -land and -port and rename the .xls to .xml.
I can't guarantee this will work so try at your own risk.

So you switched them out with Ninjamorph already? And still get FC's?
I'm wondering if we could get a copy of the TouchWiz launcher from the Epic if we could just copy and past the .xml from there?

Yea I switched them out with ninjamorph and still got problems, also tried swapping them out of a deodex'd apk and got the same issue. I have no idea on the epic, like I said before I'm definitely no expert I just like to tinker.

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Yea I switched them out with ninjamorph and still got problems, also tried swapping them out of a deodex'd apk and got the same issue. I have no idea on the epic, like I said before I'm definitely no expert I just like to tinker.
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That's how I started with the Moto Droid. Just started to tinker. lol!
I'll look for an Epic version of the launcher or any other galaxy phone launcher in a system dump or if anyone else can find one a post it.
We really need someone that is good with .xml stuff

Here Is a Clear Dock when you click on it its going to look black but it works

[Q] How to theme an app?

I'm sorry for posting a question in here, and not searching, but I'm getting really ******* frustrated! I've spent hours on this and it won't work!
I have this app, Music Hunter, which is really great, but it's not the most beautiful app in the world, and it got me thinking, why can't I theme it myself? It's just some .png files to change, isn't it?
So I opened the apk in 7zip and started changing the pngs (without extracting it). I used Paint.NET. All the png files are the right sizes.
About two hours later I was done and I was ready to try the new apk, but it won't install, what am I doing wrong?? Are there any other files I need to change too?
I've also tried NinjaMorph but that wouldn't work either.
If anyone could help me, with a guide or something that would be nice!
I'll post the apks
Original: http://db.tt/l0g3Ckbm
Themed: http://db.tt/zTVNCat2

Oscar-Mark said:
I'm sorry for posting a question in here, and not searching, but I'm getting really ******* frustrated! I've spent hours on this and it won't work!
I have this app, Music Hunter, which is really great, but it's not the most beautiful app in the world, and it got me thinking, why can't I theme it myself? It's just some .png files to change, isn't it?
So I opened the apk in 7zip and started changing the pngs (without extracting it). I used Paint.NET. All the png files are the right sizes.
About two hours later I was done and I was ready to try the new apk, but it won't install, what am I doing wrong?? Are there any other files I need to change too?
I've also tried NinjaMorph but that wouldn't work either.
If anyone could help me, with a guide or something that would be nice!
I'll post the apks
Original: http://db.tt/l0g3Ckbm
Themed: http://db.tt/zTVNCat2
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When you pushed the edited .pngs back into the .apk, have you selected 'save' as compression method instead of 'normal compression' etc.?
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It wont install because the signature was broke. It needs to be signed again. Also if you edited .9 images they likely won't look right since they weren't decompiled.

Yeah you probably need to sign it. Use zipsigner 2 on the play store. And also, like the above guy said, if you edited .9's without decompiling, you're gonna have some funky looking images.
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Signed it and it works!
Now I can theme all my apps!
Thanks!