I have a Droid, 2.0.1 (Sholes ROM) and it is rooted. I have Metamorph installed, even loaded a couple of themes - worked great!
Then I found this place and this very long list of themes. Even found the file for metamorph themes. Problem is this:
I have no idea of what the rev/version is referencing:
CM
cyanogen
AOS1.6
etc, etc.
Can someone tell me what I am looking for???
I figure that AOS is the Android Operating System but I am at 2.0.1, not 1.6. Are there just no MM themes for 2.0.1 or is there another thing I should be looking for???
Marsha
CM
cyanogen
AOS1.6
etc, etc.
This is telling you that the theme works on Cyanogen Mods (for G1/Mytouch3g)... version 1.6 (Donut)
Things made for CM and most other arent going to really work for the Droid. We are running Android 1.5/1.6 and even with using eclair, our stuff is ported so we maintain only having a drawable folder, even if there is a themed eclair ROM, if the theme is made for the G1/My Touch, only the drawable-mdpi and drawable folders are themed, we wouldnt edit things in the drawable-hdpi folder since out phones don't use it. You on the other hand need the edits in the hdpi folder since the Droid is a higher res phone. MetaMorph would be a good opportunity for you to learn the basics of themes and use that to put them together for yourself. Of course, maybe a backup of your phone before applying.
I have seen a few themes incorporating this, so I was just wondering if anyone had it on it's own?
Also: if anyone can tell me how to extract certain aspects of a theme (not within metamorph but outside so I actually save time), that would be awesome.
Here you go. It's a Metamorph theme, as that was the quickest easiest thing to put together. If you want to play with it yourself, take a look at the files in the zip i made for you. They should give you the basic idea. To extract them yourself, just rename the apk file to .zip and extract. Then edit as you like.
However this theme is untested, but should work as intended. It is made for MCR 3.0, but should work with all roms.
Theme file is missing or corrupted.
Anyone else wanna supply a working one?
here you gooooooo
update.zip
clear keyboard background
http://www.4shared.com/file/217207050/5e76db71/justclearkeybg.html
go to toown
oh yea didnt test this either lol
uh i think this will only work for sense but idk
plz do a nandroid as i did this in 2 min and i might have forgotn something or messed something up ahah
well im not sure if there has to be a certain folder that i removed
oh and well yea do a nandroid
Worked perfectly. Thanks
yuur welcome!
I am running Enomther's 2.9.3 (a heartily badass rom) with ADW and cannot find out how to get a semi-transparent notification pulldown. I like the statusbar as is, but all attempts to search for a fix/mod/walkthrough have been fruitless. I've searched every word variation of what I want on this site and on google, to no avail. I found a link to what I though would work,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=700703
but Micromod777s themes are for FRF83 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6988969&postcount=163), and when applied to the Enomther 2.9.3 (FRF91) it causes a bootloop. Some of you are probably LOLing at my noobness but I really don't know where else to go from here. Can I just pull the applicable framework from CM6 (which has the semi-transparent pulldown, AFAIK) and adb push it, or will that break something else? Thanks for any and all replies, be it a fix/patch/theme or even a RTFM noob (just please post the link to the M part).
Josh
What you COULD do...is simple!
Go to the market and download MetaMorph.
And then look through the metamorph thread in Nexus Themes & Apps
I'm sure you're bound to find one in there that is what you want. =D
edit: and also, I'm pretty sure Micromod's has themes for FRF91.
Best I can tell metamorph will not do it. It needs a patched services.jar in addition to pngs from framework-res.apk made transparent...In the metamorph themes thread, post 66, it is asked how to make the pulldown transparent. Post 67 he gets shut down. So I follow the link there to
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6996807#post6996807
which mentions an app called XUltimate Froyo Transparency Fix. I download that, and adb pull my services.jar, copy that into the same folder as ADB and the XUltimate program, and run it. I get the errors i've posted. I've read through the thread for XUltimate and haven't seen any fixes. It's possible because that's a droid forum/droid specific, even though they're working with 2.2.
Like the old saying goes, i'm not looking for a fish (not that i'd turn one away at this point, the way my frustration is mounting); I"m looking to be taught how to fish.
I've decided to go ahead and make a tool mostly for themers to make their life of porting the endless amounts of pictures from rom to rom. Now, this doesn't mean users cant use this as well, but PLEASE make a nandroid before hand. It's in beta so don't expect it to be perfect. I have an auto updater with it as well so ill be updating it that way.
*** i had no idea there was a working theme porter on here untill after i made this. I tried i think 1.3 and it failed so i decided to make my own. I just came across the 1.0 posted last month.
WILL NOT PORT GAPPS IF ITS NOT IN THE STOCK ROM.
Im currently working on a fix for that, if you want gapps, throw them in the stock rom your self and then port it.
Notes:
This has only been tested on Motorola Droid.
Instructions:
1. Make a nandroid. I don't want to hear whining if it doesn't work and you lose everything. I'm also not responsible if this bricks your phone. Even if it does, you have recovery, then you have SBF.
2. Download, DO NOT simply just run if your using IE (Who uses IE anymore...?)
3. Select the theme as "Select Theme".
4. Select the STOCK rom you are running as "Select Stock Rom".
5. Hit port and sit back and watch.
Limitations:
Only supports Update.zip formats, for now. i may support Meta Morphs in the future.
Only moves .pngs to new rom, Meaning if the theme has custom .xmls in it, it WONT port.
Change log:
Code:
Version: 1.0:
Ability to port themes from one rom to another.
Progress bars on extracting / moving (Title of console window)
Output log on screen (Not great, will work on.)
Version 1.1:
Added Auto Updater.
Added some crash fixes.
Version 1.2:
Fixed bug where if theme has no themed /system/app's it would crash.
Version 1.5 (Initial Release):
Fixed Progress bar on extracting / moving to archive.
Implemented Suggestion/bug reporting system.
Some general bug fixes.
Added audio on port completion.
Version 1.5.1.0
Added options form.
-Change colors of output console.
-Save last used .zips (toggle)
-Play sound on port completion (toggle)
-Fade out on exit (toggle)
Download:
TheDeathly said:
Only moves .jpgs to new rom, Meaning if the theme has custom .xmls in it, it WONT port.
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Hmm so it will port the default wallpaper xD
Did you heard about MetaMorph? From your description I think it does exactly the same and more and it's some kind of standard in theming world.
Brut.all said:
Did you heard about MetaMorph? From your description I think it does exactly the same and more and it's some kind of standard in theming world.
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I've heard of people having lots of issues with metamorph over a standard update.zip, and at least in the moto droid community we use update.zip's over metamorph's especially since metamorph was buggy with Froyo for the longest time, I do not know if it still is or not.
C0mpu13rFr34k said:
Hmm so it will port the default wallpaper xD
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Oops, i meant it'll only port over .pngs. sorry for the typo lol
Hey cool, haven't tried it but does it work for porting eclair/froyo themes to cupcake/donut roms ? and vice-versa ? A lot has changed since the firmwares (including some .9 being changed to .png and vice versa). Checkout the last beta i posted, it had support for that, u cud prolly use most of the schemes.
@Brut, correct this is a lot like metamorph but metamorph is firmware dependant whereas this isnt/shudnt be. For eg, title_bar in pre eclair/froyo roms was a .png and now is a .9 png. Metamorph just inserts images and hence would cause problems. This only brings over files if they match and in some cases like my script renames them to match the firmware's naming convention (eg, pre-eclair/froyo didnt have mdpi,hdpi, just plain drawable). Hope that clears the air.
Also another thing that makes these have the upperhand to metamorph is the capability to take a dump of ur phone, put the dump of a rom u want to try and BAM ur theme is ported to that rom. Whereas with metamorph, id have to go out and look for the individual morphs that helped me accomplish the look/feel of my phone.
Daneshm90 said:
Hey cool, haven't tried it but does it work for porting eclair/froyo themes to cupcake/donut roms ? and vice-versa ? A lot has changed since the firmwares (including some .9 being changed to .png and vice versa). Checkout the last beta i posted, it had support for that, u cud prolly use most of the schemes.
@Brut, correct this is a lot like metamorph but metamorph is firmware dependant whereas this isnt/shudnt be. For eg, title_bar in pre eclair/froyo roms was a .png and now is a .9 png. Metamorph just inserts images and hence would cause problems. This only brings over files if they match and in some cases like my script renames them to match the firmware's naming convention (eg, pre-eclair/froyo didnt have mdpi,hdpi, just plain drawable). Hope that clears the air.
Also another thing that makes these have the upperhand to metamorph is the capability to take a dump of ur phone, put the dump of a rom u want to try and BAM ur theme is ported to that rom. Whereas with metamorph, id have to go out and look for the individual morphs that helped me accomplish the look/feel of my phone.
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Hey, i actually have not had a chance to look at donut/eclair themes. My first Android phone was the moto droid so ive never done anything with a donut rom. i will make sure to take a look into that though. Ill go take a look at your latest beta now and see what i can come up with. thanks
Edit: i just took a look at your script and very nice work i have to say also, i may in the future decide to add support to 1.6 and lower to 2.0 +. it'll port most of it over as is except for the .9 and everything that does get ported over wont be resized properly as it does in yours. This should port eclair to froyo fine. ive actually ported over a mdpi to hdpi just fine with this so im assuming it works fine. in anycase thanks for the heads up.
Daneshm90 said:
@Brut, correct this is a lot like metamorph but metamorph is firmware dependant whereas this isnt/shudnt be. For eg, title_bar in pre eclair/froyo roms was a .png and now is a .9 png. Metamorph just inserts images and hence would cause problems. This only brings over files if they match and in some cases like my script renames them to match the firmware's naming convention (eg, pre-eclair/froyo didnt have mdpi,hdpi, just plain drawable). Hope that clears the air.
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Ahh, ok, thanks for explanation.
But I don't understand, how such tool would work so it'll be flexible and reliable. I mean... it would need to guess what to do. Human could look at files and say: "Ohh, this file was moved here, so I should rename it to xxx.", but what about the computer? How it will know how to port themes to other platforms? Of course you could implement hooks for specific situations as porting between eclair and froyo. But what about custom frameworks from manufacturers? What about changes made by themers? I could add, rename, remove anything I want, so how this tool will know, what I did and how to port my changes to other systems?
Maybe I don't understand something.
Correct its definately not perfect and apks modified more than theming ie smali\xml edit will have to be left out.
Also user must select which firmware theme is and which rom is.
Still its a step up from metamorph imho. In the end the user must recognize a products limitation and react accordingly.
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help please.. i get this error....
Error: Could not find file 'C:\Users\Jason\AppData\Local\Temp\Rar$EX00.444\port\new\META-INF'.
Whats next
What do I need to do when finished it says my ZIP file is the final folder but it is just a folder not ZIPPED please help this is too cool to not use.
Edubyah said:
What do I need to do when finished it says my ZIP file is the final folder but it is just a folder not ZIPPED please help this is too cool to not use.
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Just go inside of the final folder and zip all the contents with a winzip, and make sure it zips as a zip file and not a zipx. after you're done you can use a program to sign your zip like RegawMOD Zip Signer v1.0.
The supplied zip file is not flashable for some reason - have had to manually add them to a ROM.
Going to test this out tomorrow. Any success stories?
I'm giving this a run, but I'm trying to port an hdpi theme to mdpi... will let you know the results. All in all, this is really nice work!!!
Unfortunately for me, the theme I wanted to port is giving me issues because it's a UI rather than a theme. I was trying to get DarkEdge on my Eris. I did want to say though that every thing worked beautifully and this is really an incredible resource for the android community.
From me to you on Cyanogentazz [insert latest version here] Eris
This works great now that it get that instant update! Thanks for the work!
Is there some sort of list of available metamorph items for use on the hd2 cuz i cant find it anywhere.
It's circumstancial, really, depending upon which RADIO version you're using, as well as what ROM you use and what Kernel version. For example, for MccMBox v8 gingerbread 2.3.4 - Sense 2.1+3.0, i havent found single Morph that works for that yet (I may be doing it incorrectly for that specific ROM). however, CM7 seems to be really compatible with Metamorph and provided themes/mods. However, i have, thus far, been unable to find any morphs to mod my PURLY Sense themes yet....
However, I AM a noob... but from what I gather from links below, metamorph is somewhat new and doesnt have that well-rounded 100% compatibility. Browse/search Themes/App sections...
CM7 Themes (with some explaining in first few posts) - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=955177
Morphs - Theme Chooser, Lockscreen, Add-Ons, etc - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1013757
Theme Chooser Themes - Old Thread - New Link in Post (VERY GOOD THREAD) - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1056292
... -- These threads are the most helpful threads i've been able to find as of but I've only just begun research/studying about 3 days ago. Don't get lazy and skip reading; this seems easy but is more advanced than one wants to think and you can seriously mess you're stuff up so be sure to do your research and ask any questions before you start modding your phone left and right.
Hope this was helpful and good luck!!