Hey guys,
I'm having trouble with metamorph. I'm on an Eris running KaosFroyo 36, and I think I'm missing something. It says themes are being applied, but they always hang up or freeze and never actually get installed. Is there another piece to this puzzle?
Are you applying the right themes for your device? If it says MDPI, then install MDPI, and vice versa for HDPI devices.
Also, if your device or ROM is not supported for the metamorph you are trying to apply to, then there is a good chance it could not work. Cheers.
I know your using an Eris, but for some reason on Galaxy S phones USB debugging has to be enabled for Metamorph to work. Give it a try
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hey! i've asked several devs for this, but no one seems to be able to do it.. i want a black bar with a blue droid logo on it for my G1.. i do NOT want this as a MetaMorph, because i dont have an SDK, adb shell, or anything of the such.. i have my G1 (currently running CM5.0.7Test7), Usb cable, and 4 gb sd card.. and besides that, i'm one of the biggest nOObs you'll ever meet.. the bar should look like this:
http://s10.directupload.net/images/user/100413/vlnyc22k.png
it's from the BlueDark theme for CM.. i HATE the theme, but love the bar.. Cloverdale makes Black bar mods that are just flashable .zip files, and they seem to work fine.. can anyone do this for me? thanks!
bro i dnt kno enuff to help u but i can say post a thread or re tittle ur thread to ask for help with doing this yourself. i posted a how to theme guide and got a couple replys with good advice i was lookin for
Mardenator said:
hey! i've asked several devs for this, but no one seems to be able to do it.. i want a black bar with a blue droid logo on it for my G1.. i do NOT want this as a MetaMorph, because i dont have an SDK, adb shell, or anything of the such.. i have my G1 (currently running CM5.0.7Test7), Usb cable, and 4 gb sd card.. and besides that, i'm one of the biggest nOObs you'll ever meet.. the bar should look like this:
http://s10.directupload.net/images/user/100413/vlnyc22k.png
it's from the BlueDark theme for CM.. i HATE the theme, but love the bar.. Cloverdale makes Black bar mods that are just flashable .zip files, and they seem to work fine.. can anyone do this for me? thanks!
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Metamorph is a free app in the market, you download the file (If anyone makes it for you in metamorph) put it on your SD card, and use metamorph on the phone to do the rest. It is easy and doesn't require SDK, or anything else.
Even cloverdale is using metamorph now so it is compatible with all versions. It saves a lot of trouble making new versions for each new test CM that comes out.
i know.. someone made me a MM bar for my g1, but when i tried applying it, it just said "applying framework-res.apk".. and it stayed that way for hours! i even left it like that when i went to sleep, and woke up the next morning to find it still applying it..
Mardenator said:
i know.. someone made me a MM bar for my g1, but when i tried applying it, it just said "applying framework-res.apk".. and it stayed that way for hours! i even left it like that when i went to sleep, and woke up the next morning to find it still applying it..
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Did you superuser permission screen pop up? if you haven't ever given MM su access, it can't work
i already did that.. i even tried uninstalling &reinstalling it, but it still didn't work
Do you have busybox? if so, I don't know what else to say.....
no! lol i dont have busybox, which might be why MM doesnt work..
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?
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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.
basically im finding a theme i like. im downloading it to my computer. im plugging my phone in. im dragging the file i downloaded to MOT (D in the androidthemes folder. then i click it on it. unzip and apply all. some themes are working like custom notification icons but nothing else really is. For example i wanna change the color of my notification bar but its not working. i also tried the gingerbread (statusbar + icons) and thats a no go for me either. i get an error where it says status bar not responding. blah blah blah and everytime i hit force close it pops back up again. Am i doing anything wrong? I am stock deodexed tho. it worked great no problems. if someone could walk me through the steps that would be awsome. Am i not putting the themes in the right folder or something? bare with my guys im a newbie i appreciate your help!
The Metamorph themes here seem to work fine. I'm running the whitebread one. However, I went to a site dedicated to metamorph themes and found a theme with the Bionic logo in my notifications(well, behind my notifications) when I pull it down, that's supposed to work for the Bionic and Droid 3, but when I do it, on reboot I'm flooded with force closes. I tried it about 3 times since I had nandroids, but gave up cause waiting 10+ minutes to restore my phone became to much of a hassle.
It seems when it reboots on it's own I get all the force closes, but when I do it manually it works fine.
yeah i know what you mean. but am i putting the themes in the right folder on my computer? i dont understand why it wouldnt be working at all
"AndroidThemes" is the right folder.
This is the first anything I have put forth to share, but wanted to because everyone shares with me. I took the darkness skin offered by handcent and put my own twist on it. The only way I've tried to apply it is to uninstall the original one and install this one. No need for root access. I hope you like it...
Screenshots:
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This my latest and final one. It is the same type of skin as the one above, but this one replaces the metal skin.
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It's a bin file can't install...
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I'm new...what can I say, I will fix it now.
Updated, its a go now. Sorry for the derail.
Nice dude looks good. Not a big skull fan but good work.
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Well its the colors more than the skull I was going for.
If anyone has suggestions of what they would like to see, let me know.
I can't get this to work at all on liquid 3.0 for the thunderbolt... That's the only snag I've found so far.
Edit: moved updated skin to first post.
I can't install it on my HTC Desire with CM7.1. Handcent is up to date. After the install failed I resigned the apk and tried again but still no luck. Any ideas?
I had problems with liquid for the thunderbolt, and also with a few other roms. I haven't changed anything and it works on bamf forever. I'm not sure what keeps it from installing on certain roms. I tried adb push and that didn't work either. I'm not very well versed in system operations. I wish I had a definitive answer.
I tried a few more times (resigning, repacking and resigning, repacking and optimizing and resigning etc.) but still no luck. Maybe it's because of my ROM (CM7.1) or the Handcent version (3.9.9.1) but there are problems even with the original handcent skins from the market (I tried the Halloween skins). They install but I can't select them in the handcent app.
I also tried to mod the handcent apk but even stranger things are happening there: it installs without any issues but when I open it it crashes. No FC warning or something but it simply closes right away.
I'll keep trying so maybe someday we can all enjoy various skins for handcent.
Thanks for the effort. It only worked on certain roms for me. My friends with unrooted phones didn't have any trouble, so unfortunately I think it just wont work for everyone. I am making another one, but I wont be able to put up any screenshots.
Okay... I changed one more... It will be my last one because I get bored quickly of any one thing. I'll put it in the first post.