hi guys. im new to this forum and would like some help on how to change the status bar on my milestone(droid).. my phone is rooted and i have metamorph installed and am running android 2.1 stock.
When i apply a theme to other apks from metamorph everything is fine but when i try to apply it to the framework-res.apk my phone reboots and nothing is changed i also tried to use AndoidCommander to pull the framework-res.apk manually, change the images and put it back in but it doesnt change any help pls? Thanks
Wrong section, and try using the search function.
sorry which forum is it supposed to be in?
also i tried to search but nothing seemed to work
ok guys i managed to at least push the apk using the terminal app.. but everytime it reboots everything starts to force close and i have to reinstall the sbf using rsd lite... do you know what im doing wrong please?
Um well I don't bother with theming myself, but in the absence of any more helpful responses, if you're running a stock ROM I imagine it's odex'ed & you can't theme an odex'ed ROM. You could look into deodexing the ROM but aiui it's quite a bit of work. Probably easier to find a custom ROM you like, which isn't odex'ed & start from that. E&OE.
thanks for replying mate the problem is that the milestone cannot run custom ROMs due to a locked bootloader... the problem is that i can mod all the apks except the framework-res.apk, which when modified using the terminal app, makes all the applications force close..
EDIT: ok i tried to deodex the modified framework-res.apk and push it on the phone but still didn't work any help guys?
I used Metamorph to theme my phone. I didn't like it so i decided to nandroid it back to the way it was. After that once i rebooted my phone, there was no bootscreen. it was just white. Ive wiped my phone and eveyrthing but still cant find a fix. anyone know a fix for this?
I'm running HTCClays Superfast 1.3 ROM on the Mytouch 3g (32b)
I used Metamorph to theme my phone. I didn't like it so i decided to nandroid it back to the way it was. After that once i rebooted my phone, there was no bootscreen. it was just white. Ive wiped my phone and eveyrthing but still cant find a fix. anyone know a fix for this?
I'm running HTCClays Superfast 1.3 ROM on the Mytouch 3g (32b)
Noticed this in quite a few custom ROMs that market doesn't work after flashing. I kept getting the 'download unsuccessful' errors all the time. So on a hunch, I replaced the vending.apk and MarketUpdater.apk files in /system/app with the same files from CM 6.1 beta, and market started working again (as in I can download files again). However, now I am getting market FCs every minute or so. Is there any other that probably needs to be replaced? What are the market's dependencies?
Any help would be greatly appreciated
i have the same problem with market: download unsuccesful but i didn't flash my phone or anything. i tryed but it didnt work. after a while i've noticed that the market send me this msg when i try download smth.
how we solve this?
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Ok, I have a solution here (sort of) which I've tried on various custom ROMs now and it works. Last time I replaced vending.apk and marketupdated.apk and it gave me FC's all over the market. So, this time, instead of replacing individual APKs, i flashed the whole Google Apps package from CyanogenMod via recovery. It solved the market issues for me.
http://goo-inside.me/google-apps/
and how exactly u did that? there are a lot of files/dirs there, which one to download?
Hey aatifahmad,
I also would like to learn how to apply this update.zip. I tried it via recovery but it seems I had recovery 3e and it does not do unsigned update.zip. Do you have a workaround for this issue or did you revert back to recovery 2e?
If you have an easier way, please let us know. I really don't want to mess with the recovery.
I wanted to apply one of the battery mods to my captivate i896 (running the stock rogers rom), specifically version E.
I tried using the UOT Kitchen website at first but that failed. So then I tried to do it myself, but that also fails. Something seems to be going wrong when I try to apply the update.zip I have and I see no error output to help me trace it. Here's what I've been doing (when I tried it from scratch):
So I downloaded the related zip file from the second post, "scbm_E_grey_number.zip".
I then used "Android Theming and Tweaking" to get the framework file from my phone, and decompile it. I replaced the corresponding .png and .xml files from "scbm_E_grey_number.zip" to the appropriate folders in the decompiled folder from the ATT software. Then using the same software, I compile the framework apk again.
I then use the update.zip creator. I create a "framework" folder in the "placehere" folder for the update creator. Inside the framework folder I placed my new APK. I then ran the update creator to generate a new script, which copies from "framework" to "framework" on SYSTEM. Finally, I have it create the update.zip for me.
Everything is fine up to this point. I place the update.zip on my SD card, boot my phone into recovery, try to flash it...I get the following:
Code:
-- Install from sdcard...
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Installing update...
Installation aborted.
I've tried this a few times with no luck
I'd like to figure this out in the hopes that I can do some mods of my own in the future, so any help would be great Thanks!
If you ever figuered this out please let me know too, i am having the same issue. I am using a Captive that I just restored with Odin. I unroot it and remove the applock on it. I get the same installation aborted issue. I then tried to install it with ClockWork recovery... that just crashed my phone and I had to reinstall again. So if anyone know what the problem is please chime in.
Can't theme the stock rom. It has to be a deodexed rom, which is essentially all of the custom ones. Also, don't flash mods through the stock 2e recovery, you want to do it through CWM.
TheEscapist said:
Can't theme the stock rom. It has to be a deodexed rom, which is essentially all of the custom ones. Also, don't flash mods through the stock 2e recovery, you want to do it through CWM.
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Hmm I see, thanks for the info... there was no odex file for that particular file, so I thought I'd be lucky and it was possible :/
And, why should you use CWM to flash instead of the stock recovery?
ootz0rz said:
Hmm I see, thanks for the info... there was no odex file for that particular file, so I thought I'd be lucky and it was possible :/
And, why should you use CWM to flash instead of the stock recovery?
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No problem. While on the topic, is that thanks button new, or am i just blind, and missed it all this time?
It's something about signatures, if I remember correctly, though, that may be 3e. I think part of it is that it's just typically done with CWM.
ootz0rz said:
I wanted to apply one of the battery mods to my captivate i896 (running the stock rogers rom), specifically version E.
I tried using the UOT Kitchen website at first but that failed. So then I tried to do it myself, but that also fails. Something seems to be going wrong when I try to apply the update.zip I have and I see no error output to help me trace it. Here's what I've been doing (when I tried it from scratch):
So I downloaded the related zip file from the second post, "scbm_E_grey_number.zip".
I then used "Android Theming and Tweaking" to get the framework file from my phone, and decompile it. I replaced the corresponding .png and .xml files from "scbm_E_grey_number.zip" to the appropriate folders in the decompiled folder from the ATT software. Then using the same software, I compile the framework apk again.
I then use the update.zip creator. I create a "framework" folder in the "placehere" folder for the update creator. Inside the framework folder I placed my new APK. I then ran the update creator to generate a new script, which copies from "framework" to "framework" on SYSTEM. Finally, I have it create the update.zip for me.
Everything is fine up to this point. I place the update.zip on my SD card, boot my phone into recovery, try to flash it...I get the following:
Code:
-- Install from sdcard...
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Installing update...
Installation aborted.
I've tried this a few times with no luck
I'd like to figure this out in the hopes that I can do some mods of my own in the future, so any help would be great Thanks![/QUO
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Eh, I'm hesitant to flash a custom rom. I have a rogers captivate and don't want to be stuck with an at&t boot screen (in case I need for repair or whatever) and I don't want to be stuck with poor GPS performance (as mine works VERY VERY well right now).
ootz0rz said:
Eh, I'm hesitant to flash a custom rom. I have a rogers captivate and don't want to be stuck with an at&t boot screen (in case I need for repair or whatever) and I don't want to be stuck with poor GPS performance (as mine works VERY VERY well right now).
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AT&T boot screen can be replaced, but you have to do a whole bunch of Odin stuff to get there. Also, that's because we(I'm on rogers as well) have a tweaked modem.bin. You can flash that, or one of the jupiter/JM9 fixes to get similar gps performance. But obviously, it's your choice. You are messing with a quite expensive piece of hardware. However, if you want to apply mods, you need to get a custom rom.
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AT&T boot screen can be replaced, but you have to do a whole bunch of Odin stuff to get there. Also, that's because we(I'm on rogers as well) have a tweaked modem.bin. You can flash that, or one of the jupiter/JM9 fixes to get similar gps performance. But obviously, it's your choice. You are messing with a quite expensive piece of hardware. However, if you want to apply mods, you need to get a custom rom.
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I'd love to have a set of concise instructions detailing all that...but everything is all over the place and difficult to find :/ Right now I'm just mostly reading up on things and trying to learn
There's instructions in the dev forum. If I wasn't on my phone, I'd grab the link for you. As far as learning, you just have to spend hours and hours on here.
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There's instructions in the dev forum. If I wasn't on my phone, I'd grab the link for you. As far as learning, you just have to spend hours and hours on here.
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Heh I've been trying. It's certainly a bit of a learning curve