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How do you remove a system wallpaper?

Hi all,
Tried searching but can't find any answers. And couldn't find anything while browsing folders from Astro for the wallpaper files.
How do you remove wallpapers that's in the system? And also, remove a specific option (for example, Wallpapers Launcher) where you select wallpaper from? (ie, when you go menu/wallpaper there's a pop that ask you where you can choose the wallpaper from? How to remove an option)
Thanks in advance!

You can't remove the pop up option. Removing the system wallpapers involves pulling the launcher apk file and removing the wallpaper files from it, then pushing it back. There's no such thing as a wallpapers folder in Android. You have to be rooted to even do that much. Don't bother wasting your time. Live with the way it's currently set up.

uansari1 said:
You can't remove the pop up option. Removing the system wallpapers involves pulling the launcher apk file and removing the wallpaper files from it, then pushing it back. There's no such thing as a wallpapers folder in Android. You have to be rooted to even do that much. Don't bother wasting your time. Live with the way it's currently set up.
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Thanks for the reply! I'll play around with launcher apk file and see how that goes...

If you don't want to mess around with that, I have a modified Launcher2.apk that all I did was repackage the wallpapers. It is based off of Manup456's Launcher2.apk from his 1.9r3 theme for CM5.0.4.1 I'll post some screens of a few wallpapers.
Code:
adb remount
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adb pull /system/app/Launcher2.apk Launcher2.apkBAK
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adb push Launcher2.apk /system/app/Launcher2.apk

So it seems the Launcher.apk is too big. I am at work and can't access any sort of file sharing websites. Anybody have any suggestions of how I can upload this?

ccunningham83 said:
So it seems the Launcher.apk is too big. I am at work and can't access any sort of file sharing websites. Anybody have any suggestions of how I can upload this?
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Have you compressed it into a zip file?

I'm not sure I'm doing it right. I am using 7-zip. I will take everything I want to zip, highlight it, right click, then select 7-zip => add to archive, use the default settings (Normal compression level). When I'm done I get a nice .zip file, change it to .apk and resign. I thought about changing the compression level, but I don't want to mess it up if everything is working great.

ccunningham83 said:
I'm not sure I'm doing it right. I am using 7-zip. I will take everything I want to zip, highlight it, right click, then select 7-zip => add to archive, use the default settings (Normal compression level). When I'm done I get a nice .zip file, change it to .apk and resign. I thought about changing the compression level, but I don't want to mess it up if everything is working great.
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You can't do it that way. What you should do instead, is to open the original apk file, by right-clicking on it and choosing "Open with"... and use 7zip.
That will open the apk archive showing you the contents. Find the appropriate folder where the wallpapers are located. You can now delete the wallpapers or replace them by overwriting... I think you can add more as well, but haven't tried that. Then just close 7zip and save the apk if prompted. There's no need to resign the apk this way either.
That's it... just push that back to /system and reboot.
Edit: Make sure to do a nand backup first.

I may give it a try. The Launcher2.apk in Manup456's theme is 10.9 MB though, so even that is over the limit to attach to a post here on XDA. Back to the original posters question, you can delete the wallpapers in the Launcher2.apk, but you will have a blank spot where you deleted the Launcher. It is best to replace both the wallpapers with ones of the same name. There will be one by one name and another one with the same name except "_small" after it. They are sized 960x800 for the normal and 170x142 for the small wallpaper (the preview one).

ccunningham83 said:
I may give it a try. The Launcher2.apk in Manup456's theme is 10.9 MB though, so even that is over the limit to attach to a post here on XDA. Back to the original posters question, you can delete the wallpapers in the Launcher2.apk, but you will have a blank spot where you deleted the Launcher. It is best to replace both the wallpapers with ones of the same name. There will be one by one name and another one with the same name except "_small" after it. They are sized 960x800 for the normal and 170x142 for the small wallpaper (the preview one).
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This is the reason I recommended that the OP not waste his time. What's the problem with having a separate wallpapers folder on your SD card and applying from there? I have 10-12 wallpapers that I found there and it works great. The only thing "some" people may find unappealing is that it shows up in the Gallery...

I think most people put it in the gallery and leave it at that. I however, seem to make everything extremely difficult. I enjoy having the wall paper show up in the Launcher2 gallery instead of the gallery app. I like it because it is already sized, formatted, and doesn't show up in the gallery. Plus, it is cool to show off (though most people don't understand the amount of work that went into it).

help with edited .apks

So I'm going through my apps, looking to change their icons to some custom ones that I have (so they all have the same style). Everything runs smoothly: I transferred them all to my pc, opened the apks with winrar, replaced the icons, resigned them and then installed them through adb. However, when I open my app drawer, the icons end up being different sizes. Some are smaller than the others. All the icons that I am using to replace the originals are all 60x60 so I'm not sure what the problem is. Is there something in the .apk itself that tells the phone what to scale image to or something? Any help would be appreciated.

I know this is quite irreverent to your question, but may I ask how do you sign apks? I really haven't found any way yet.. not a simple way at least.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=646962
after signing you need to delete the original app from your phone (unable to just overwrite), put the signed app in your sdk/tools folder and then install it with "adb install 'whatever_your_app_name.apk"

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There must be something in the apk that tells the OS how much to scale an image because as soon as I replaced the stock icon with a custom that was the same dimensions everything worked smoothly.

Your best bet is to keep the same size as the originals, sometimes images are stretched to fill their containers.

the problem was actually that they'd end up being smaller in the launcher than they should be. I was overwriting 48x48's with 60x60's thinking they'd work like bettercut and just scale correctly but I was wrong.

How To NinjaMorph

So I recently released a new app for theming and modifying apks and jars right from the phone, this app is called NinjaMorph.
Here I am just going to explain how to use NinjaMorph as per request from those that have the app.
NinjaMorph was made so that we could more easily make changes to the system apks and jar files from our phones without needing to apply a packaged theme or hook our phones up to the computer.
In order to use NinjaMorph you will need Busybox installed, cp properly symlinked, and at least 20mb of space of your SD card.
When you first open the app you will see three buttons at the bottom.
The first is "New Project", which is the one your going to start with.
Select "New Project" and navigate to an apk or .jar file of your choice, excluding apps that need to be signed like Market apps.
A good example would be for you to go to "System" > "framework" > "framework-res.apk"
The app will then extract the contents of the apk, as well as making a backup of it on your sdcard "/sdcard/AndroidThemes/backup/"
After its done it will ask you to pick a file to change, navigate to "res" > then a drawable folder with images in it.
Once there you should see all the images there in that folder, select one and it will ask you to pick one to replace it with, NinjaMorph will rename the file you pick to replace it to the appropriate name.
After that just keep changing things until you've done everything you'd like to do.
If you have an existing project you can use the "existing Project" button to continue where you left off.
If your done with your project and you want to apply the changes, Choose the "Finish Project" button and select which project you want to finish, NinjaMorph will do its thing and thats it.
Note that after making some changes you may need to reboot to see the changes made.
Anymore questions, ask away.

Wow this seems pretty great! good work Stericson!
I will try it to change around a few files in CM5 for the G1.

Let me know how it goes

Loving it, the next step would be to select multiple files to replace, and then have it either chose a directory to find the replacements, or individually select the replacements one at a time.
its like theming has been revolutionized.....again
Thanks! Just made theming on-the-run possible...I'm screwed now, gonna be playing w/ my theme everywhere, where as before I had to be at my home computer

im totally buying this, great job

I'm not sure how this lets you theme your phone without a computer... don't you need a computer to create the new graphics that you're using to replace the old graphics?

you can DL them from the web straight to your phone- eg. manup456's droid icons...

So, I could potentially change Blue color on Power Widget to green by using this? Provided that I have necessary Settings.apk on SD card or those PNGs have to be extracted to a folder? Am I getting this right?
Or change icon for particular application?

They need to be extracted to a folder..

I can't find the app in the Market. I'm on a Espresso 2.1 rom.

Your work is incredible, I have not put my phone down for three days.

great app, but takes forever going back and forth and back and forth

You know you can copy multiple files at once right? Use the copy button.

and that does what exactly?

Wow, Slick, Fast, Totally awesome!
Great way to easily micro-customize a theme.

if i move a .apk i got from the market into the /system/app folder and install it from there, will i not have to worry about resigning it?

so i changed my battery around and now the market dosnt work

One issue that I'm seeing currently is that the app will FC if I try to delete a project after having applied it.

App not working
I tried to morph the Helix2...would this be one of the signed apps you cannot morph with ninjamorph? BTW I love the app!

Tried to replace some .9 png's from ADW launcher for 1.6. got a black screen after reboot.
Changing pics on other apk's is working.
The start checks are done again and again. Is this a an issue of my phone software?

Adding Icon Pack to Android Market?

I'd like to release an icon pack that I've created to the Android Market. I currently have one app on the market, but am unsure of how to upload the icon pack. Basically It is a .zip file full of the icons. I don't want to make a launcher specific pack, just have the icons available for download.
How do I go about doing this?

robb01 said:
I'd like to release an icon pack that I've created to the Android Market. I currently have one app on the market, but am unsure of how to upload the icon pack. Basically It is a .zip file full of the icons. I don't want to make a launcher specific pack, just have the icons available for download.
How do I go about doing this?
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Why not just put them on here?

btm fdr said:
Why not just put them on here?
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Easier release - More people to see it - plenty more reasons.
Anyways, I'm not completely sure but I think you'd have to compile the icons into an apk

robb01 said:
I'd like to release an icon pack that I've created to the Android Market. I currently have one app on the market, but am unsure of how to upload the icon pack. Basically It is a .zip file full of the icons. I don't want to make a launcher specific pack, just have the icons available for download.
How do I go about doing this?
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Even I'm looking for an answer to this. But I know how to create apk from raw icons, so never really searched for it.
Anyway, you can check with the developer of "Lucid Rounds" icons pack. He has his icons pack in the market, which essentially is a zip, wrapped in a apk. i.e. when you install his app, it gives you a button to press to download the icons zip.

Thanks, I sent him an email. Surprised no one knows how to do this.

robb01 said:
Thanks, I sent him an email. Surprised no one knows how to do this.
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How to do what though? The market only stores apps, so it would have to be an apk and if you don't want it be launcher specific, what exactly would that apk do?
You could easily do this with a variety of methods (off the top of my head):
Same as Lucid Rounds author (I have that and hate this method)
Just store your icons as raw assets and tell users where they are
Store icons as raw assets and let users save them to SD in your app
Store icons remotely and let users save them to SD in your app
Include the icons as extra data for your app and save that to SD automatically (e.g. like a game with extra data)
The last method is best IMHO, especially with the new partial updates the Play Store supports, that way you'd never need to update the app, just the icons.

djmcnz said:
How to do what though? The market only stores apps, so it would have to be an apk and if you don't want it be launcher specific, what exactly would that apk do?
You could easily do this with a variety of methods (off the top of my head):
Same as Lucid Rounds author (I have that and hate this method)
Just store your icons as raw assets and tell users where they are
Store icons as raw assets and let users save them to SD in your app
Store icons remotely and let users save them to SD in your app
Include the icons as extra data for your app and save that to SD automatically (e.g. like a game with extra data)
The last method is best IMHO, especially with the new partial updates the Play Store supports, that way you'd never need to update the app, just the icons.
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Thanks, the lucid rounds author got back with me, and I just followed his directions. Its basically a zip file to download, and I got it in the market. Not ideal, but it works.

Change the look of Android to WP7

This is a simple procedure to change the interface of android to windows phone
First of all,I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY HARM YOU MAY CAUSE TO YOUR DEVICE!!!!!Guys just a sec! I am busy u knw!But finally,after long waiting,here's the procedure
First download these awesome softwares from other cool devs available on the play store or as apks on the net
Launcher 7(Home screen)
Photo safari(Pictures hub)
Z player (Music Player)
WP7 Notifications(Notifications.Duh!!)
My xbox live(games hub)
Wp7 Lock(lock screen)
WP7 Contacts(Contacts)
Wp7 Phone(optional)
Wp7 calculator
Wp7 email
Downloaded? Now for the second step,Shift all the user apps to system apps.Apps like the phone and music should be replaced.Xbox live,calculator can just be loaded.NoteELETE THE ODEX FILES IF YOURE DELETING A SYSTEM APP!!!
In case you dont knw how to make a user app to system read on,else,skip the next para
There are two ways you can convert a user app to system:The NOOB way and the XDA way!
Noob wayownload titanium backup pro,long press an app,go to special functions and click move to system app Or download system app mover.
XDA way:
Important: Make sure to allow any SuperUser permission requests that you may get during these steps..
Procedure
Configuring ES File Explorer for root read/write access (required only once):
Launch ES File Explorer, press Menu and tap ‘Settings’.
In the settings, enable the ‘Up to root’ check box.
Further down in the settings, enable ‘Root Explorer’ check box. You will get a warning that you should confirm.
You will then get the Superuser permissions request that you must allow.
Finally, enable the ‘Mount File System’ check box, and press the back key to get back to the explorer interface. ES File Explorer is now configured to work as a root explorer. You do not need to do this again on the same device now, unless you uninstall ES File Explorer, perform a factory reset or install another ROM.
Finding the APK of an already-installed normal app (skip to step 3 if you already have the APK):
First of all, install the app from Play Store, if you haven’t already done that.
Launch ES File Explorer and go to /data/app. (You may have to press the back button to get to / first).
If you know the icon of the app, you can easily find it here. If you are having trouble finding the app here due to the confusing names or because of having a lot of apps installed, just search for the app in Google Play Store in a web browser and look at its Play Store link for the name. The file name will basically be the part after ?id= in its market link (and before any other question mark that may or may not appear in the link).
If you already have the APK of the file that you want to install as a system app, make sure you have transferred it to your device’s SD card if you haven’t done that already. Also make sure you know the path where you have copied it on the SD card.
Once you have located the required APK on the SD card from ES File Explorer, tap-and-hold on its icon till you get a menu, and tap ‘Cut’. You should see a little blue arrow on the bottom of the screen now. (You may select ‘Copy’ instead of ‘Cut’ if you are copying a file over from the SD card and want to keep a copy there. In case of copying an APK from /data/app, always use ‘Cut’.)ES File Explorer Copying
Now press the back button till you reach / and then browse to /system/app/
Tap the little arrow that you see on the bottom of the screen. It will bring up a pane with the icon of the copied file.
Tap on the file’s icon, and it will be transferred to /system/app/.
Now find the app’s icon in the list of files there and tap-and-hold on it till you get the menu.
Scroll down in the menu till you see ‘Properties’ and tap on it. You will now see the properties dialog.
Tap the ‘Change’ button in front of the Permissions to bring up the permissions dialog.
Make sure everything under ‘Read’ is checked, only ‘User’ is checked under ‘Write’ and nothing is checked under ‘Execute’ Your screen should look like the following:ES File Explorer Permissions
Tap OK on this screen and then on the Properties screen. Your app’s permissions are now set correctly.
Reboot your device. Your app is now ready to be used as a system app.(optional)
Well were done!
youre ready to use ur brand new WP7!!!

mrappbrain said:
This is a simple procedure to change the interface of android to windows phone
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I don't see anything.
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That's the point there is no procedure to change awesome android to something called WP7
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mrappbrain said:
This is a simple procedure to change the interface of android to windows phone
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Just buy a WP7 phone.
Oh wait, no need to buy. just moaning to them about your android or ios phone and they will give you free one.

There are many apps in the market that will change the look to WP7. Start with a metro UI launcher.
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The best metro style launcher is Launcher 7, it has a great customizatoin capablities, and even came with some live tiles.(email,contacts, calendar, gallery, widget tile). even more you can customize tiles.
here you can find the launcher and many nice alternative png for tiles.
also if you are on a CM9/10 or AOKP ROM you can find some winphone7 themes too. I can't find the link right now, but sure you can find it in XDA. just search for wp7 theme.
and you can find a nice messagind app, name Messaging 7. and a status bar replacement named statusbar+
if WP7 has only a single perfect point it is the launcher. It's about a month that I'm using Launcher 7, and surprisingly I found it even easier to use than usual android launchers.
p.s the launcher 7 is designed by an independent developer so it has some bugs. for example contacts live tile drains the battery at unbeliveable speed. ignore that live and use a static one.

Procedure AT Last!
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guys cant you see?? i just added the procedure

sorry man far too complex,
the easiest way in the whole universe is:
titanium backup>batch>move to internal or convert to system app
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deathnotice01 said:
sorry man far too complex,
the easiest way in the whole universe is:
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Thats the noob way.I included it
Please hit thanks if i helped