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[GUIDE] How to make mymode themes

Well I haven't had much time lately to make themes but I figured i got enough time to explain how. This is how i do it in windows 7.
1) First thing i assume that you already have androidsdk on the root of your C drive. Lets go ahead and add it to your system path. If it's not called androidsdk go ahead and change it to that. Now open up your startmenu, right click computer, click properties, then click advanced system settings, in the advance system settings select environment variables. In the second box down look for path select it and choose edit. copy and paste this
Code:
;C:\androidsdk\tools
in there. Click okay.
2) download the jre and jdk from here and install them. Now you need to add them to your system path so copy paste this
Code:
;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.6.0_20\bin
to your system path just like you did in the first step.
3) Download apk manager from here. Now run it and when it says clean out all current projects click yes. Now thats ready to go.
4) Download an image editing program. I use gimp. Also if you don't have it 7-zip
your all set to go now so lets start over with the numbers
1) choose a mymode apk and extract it with 7-zip. Open up the res folder select a png that you want to change and change it with the image editor you chose.
2) when you've changed the images you want open up the original apk as an archive with 7zip. Then place the res folder of the modified unzipped apk into the archive and close the archive.
3) Now open up apk manager and place the mymode apk into the place here for signing folder click script batch choose no then type 15.
4) Now put the newly signed apk into your androidsdk/tools folder and close apk manager.
5) open command prompt and type this
Code:
cd\
cd androidsdk/tools
adb install whatever.apk
I'll update this with pics a more thorough guide.
Thanks to everyone that made this easy

reserved for themes to come

Thanks been waiting for a thread like this.

thanks, if i ever get any free-time between jobs and kid and fiancee i will look into this a little more

This is an awesome guide! I messed around with theming mytouch/g1 back when I had one.. so this will be great to make some themes for the slide..
One question though.. let's say you pull the nest theme.. theme it and re install it.. will it just override the nest theme or in the theme listing will it appear as a new theme and still allow you to have the original theme?
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ryanolson7 said:
One question though.. let's say you pull the nest theme.. theme it and re install it.. will it just override the nest theme or in the theme listing will it appear as a new theme and still allow you to have the original theme?
Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide using XDA App
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The nest theme is in the framework, its not an .apk like the rest, its built into the system. The rest of the mymodes themes are .apks and if you edit those they will override the stock "nest" theme. The only way it will show up different in the theme chooser is if you edit the preview snapshot to be a preview of your theme. If you wanna keep the original theme, the nest theme is it and you should edit a different theme .apk...
-BMFC
Sent from my ROOTED MyTouch3G Slide

Okay so I got the next three days off and I already got two mymode themes pretty much done well their done but I just learned of a way to change the name so they are there own standalone apk instead of using another apk name. I've been using puppypride (which by the way isn't puppies those are full grown dogs) and switching out the pngs and you couldn't have the regular puppypride now you can have both

hope you don't mind but I did a mod of your themes and took out the bubbles since some people always create threads about it

Help with following guide
I am a newb at this so please don't attack me if I am doing something wrong. I have been struggling with following the guide posted to make mymode themes. I have successfully got up to the step of signing the apk file. I modified the files in the free_kick.apk. When I try to use APK Manager 4.8 and using the directions given the file just gets erased and nothing happens. My log file just shows errors. Any help with a more detailed directions one what to do in APK manager as I am trying different things and not getting anywhere. I use the option 15 like told in the guide. I can send my modified apk file to anyone if they can get this to work and get it installed that would be appreciated so much. I hope I can figure this out my own but thought I would try get help from the forums. Thanks in advance.

impimms said:
I am a newb at this so please don't attack me if I am doing something wrong. I have been struggling with following the guide posted to make mymode themes. I have successfully got up to the step of signing the apk file. I modified the files in the free_kick.apk. When I try to use APK Manager 4.8 and using the directions given the file just gets erased and nothing happens. My log file just shows errors. Any help with a more detailed directions one what to do in APK manager as I am trying different things and not getting anywhere. I use the option 15 like told in the guide. I can send my modified apk file to anyone if they can get this to work and get it installed that would be appreciated so much. I hope I can figure this out my own but thought I would try get help from the forums. Thanks in advance.
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Actually the guide needs to be fixed a little because i'm guessing your getting compiling errors when using apk manager? But the best way to do this is to open up the mymode theme (using 7zip) as an archive delete meta-inf folder then replace the pngs with ones of your choice as long as they are the same scale. Then resign. and install

totally lost
I've followed these directions to a T and when it comes to using the apk manager i am getting nothing, please help

You guys that are having trouble with apk manager...its honestly not necessary to use Apk Manager for this. Mymodes themes are system .apks and shouldn't be re-signed. What you need to do is forget about apk manager (for now) and drop the UNsigned .apk into the ROM update you are using, and resign the whole ROM using the autosign tool created by jesusfreke. Or just adbpush the .apk. but don't resign the .apk.
Here's the link for the autosign tool to sign ROM updates. its in the THIRD POST and its auto-sign .zip, NOT the signing.zip in the first post. you can put it anywhere you want and you just drop (a copy of) your ROM update in the autosign folder, rename it update.zip, then run the sign.bat to sign. it will create another file, update-signed.zip. you shouldnt need to wipe when flashing the same ROM over itself, but i cant guarantee this is true for all ROMs.
you can also make an update that will only flash the .apk to /system/app, and nothing else will be changed. basically just make a copy of the update for the ROM youre using, then delete everything but the /system directory from the zip. then go into that /system directory and delete everything but the /app directory, then go into it and delete all the .apks and odex file or whatevers in there. ALL OF IT. when you are finished you should have an update with nothing in it but a /system/app directory. you put your modded .apk in there in /system/app, and thats it for that.
then you must edit the update script and remove MOST of its contents so that it only does what you want it to. THIS IS IMPORTANT! Go here to learn how to create an update script. what youll need is way simpler than the examples, youll want it to look basically like this...
Code:
assert compatible_with("0.2") == "true"
show_progress 0.1 0
copy_dir PACKAGE:system SYSTEM:
show_progress 0.1 10
this update script will copy ANYTHING in the /system directory to /system on your device, regardless of subdirectories. that means anything in /system will go in /system, anything in /system/app will go to /system/app, etc. but since you only have one .apk in there it wont mess with anything but what you put in there. this way, you have a NOWIPE update for...well, whatever you want to put in it.
so you just drop the new shortened update-script in /META-INF/com/google/android/
and then use the autosign tool to resign your new update then flash away! This also takes less time cus its only flashing one file instead of flashing a whole ROM just to replace that one file...
hope this helps...
-BMFC
Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide using XDA App

So you cannot do this on t-mobile's rom which is 2.1 right now? I'm leery of rooting in case they ever release froyo

Tbrewer80 said:
So you cannot do this on t-mobile's rom which is 2.1 right now? I'm leery of rooting in case they ever release froyo
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I'm having issues with this as well... After I do the whole signing apk thing, it installs fine, but when I go to MyModes, the preview is black and when I select it, the MyModes app force closes. I don't get it.

Updater-script

I put together a theme that I want to be able to install on my phone. Issue is I am not 100% what updater-script to use nor how to have it setup so that it will put the files in the correct place...do I have to have a command to delete the .apk files that I am theming? Any help would be appreciated. I have attached my file. I am getting a status 6 error so I know that it cannot read something. Not sure what is wrong.

Hatman41 said:
I put together a theme that I want to be able to install on my phone. Issue is I am not 100% what updater-script to use nor how to have it setup so that it will put the files in the correct place...do I have to have a command to delete the .apk files that I am theming? Any help would be appreciated. I have attached my file. I am getting a status 6 error so I know that it cannot read something. Not sure what is wrong.
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I use update-scripts mainly because if you do something wrong in the script it tells you what line you failed on and you can fix it. Also it's just what I learned on and what I'm comfortable with. If you're flashing a theme good rule of thumb is to make sure you wipe the dalvik cache you can do this with your script.
If you're working with windows don't use note pad it doesn't format the script properly. Try notepad++ if you're on linux just use gedit mac text wrangler.
Make sure you have the correct directory structure set up ie
META-INF/com/google/android/update-script then system/app and or framework.
Here's a simple script that will do the trick for you.....
Code:
show_progress 0.1 0
delete_recursive DATA:dalvik-cache
copy_dir PACKAGE:system SYSTEM:
show_progress 0.2 100
Hope this helps.

Thanks Lou, but I am still getting the error Status 6...that means that it cannot read the file...I am using notepad ++ to edit it. I used only what you provided in the file and the path to the file is Themename\META-INF\com\google\android I also have an update-binary in that dir...do I delete that file?

Try this one.

touchpro247 said:
Try this one.
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I did not get any error this time and it said that it installed but when I boots up nothing was actually installed.

Hatman41 said:
I did not get any error this time and it said that it installed but when I boots up nothing was actually installed.
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You don't need an update-binary if you're using an update-script. When you zip up your folders make sure you only have at minimum to folders on your desktop that your compressing the META-INF and it's sub directories and the system folder and it's sub directories don't put those inside anything just select and compress them. Once they're zipped make sure to sign the folder.
If the script didn't give you any errors it sounds like you may have put the META-INF and the system folders inside another folder before you zipped it which may be why nothing installed.

HeyItsLou said:
I use update-scripts mainly because if you do something wrong in the script it tells you what line you failed on and you can fix it. Also it's just what I learned on and what I'm comfortable with. If you're flashing a theme good rule of thumb is to make sure you wipe the dalvik cache you can do this with your script.
If you're working with windows don't use note pad it doesn't format the script properly. Try notepad++ if you're on linux just use gedit mac text wrangler.
Make sure you have the correct directory structure set up ie
META-INF/com/google/android/update-script then system/app and or framework.
Here's a simple script that will do the trick for you.....
Code:
show_progress 0.1 0
delete_recursive DATA:dalvik-cache
copy_dir PACKAGE:system SYSTEM:
show_progress 0.2 100
Hope this helps.
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+1 I had the error 6 when I made one in notepad and switched to notepadd++. I think I also had to stop using windows explorer to copy it to my phone, but rather adb pushed it. Windows is kinda quirky like that, sometimes.

HeyItsLou said:
You don't need an update-binary if you're using an update-script. When you zip up your folders make sure you only have at minimum to folders on your desktop that your compressing the META-INF and it's sub directories and the system folder and it's sub directories don't put those inside anything just select and compress them. Once they're zipped make sure to sign the folder.
If the script didn't give you any errors it sounds like you may have put the META-INF and the system folders inside another folder before you zipped it which may be why nothing installed.
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Ok so I took both the META-INF folder and the system folder and moved them both to the root of C and then I zipped both and then signed the zip...now it does nothing...I go into recovery....then I select the zip file and the screen just flashes and nothing happens.
If you want to see what I have done you can get the theme file here. This is for SkyRaider 3.3.3 with the Ucommon pack and all credit for the .png files goes to RUJELUS22, Riptide9, Defitism, Jascias and of course to Ihtfp69 for making the ROM
Download --->> http://bit.ly/aGP66D

Hatman41 said:
I did not get any error this time and it said that it installed but when I boots up nothing was actually installed.
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I'll try flashing your theme and let you know.

touchpro247 said:
I'll try flashing your theme and let you know.
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Ok...i forgot to include that it is for the uncommon theme pack for SkyRaider 3.3.3 as it has a custom Rosie that is themed.

Hatman41 said:
Ok...i forgot to include that it is for the uncommon theme pack for SkyRaider 3.3.3 as it has a custom Rosie that is themed.
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To late lol...
Worked, use this one. Just add the files to the zip.

touchpro247 said:
To late lol...
Worked, use this one. Just add the files to the zip.
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So I took your file and added it to mine...took both directories and moved them to my C drive...then zipped them up and signed them...went to recovery and installed it...says it was installing...when phone boots back up...no theme installed.

Hatman41 said:
So I took your file and added it to mine...took both directories and moved them to my C drive...then zipped them up and signed them...went to recovery and installed it...says it was installing...when phone boots back up...no theme installed.
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Don't do that. Just drag your app and framework folders to my zip.
Or
Copy and paste your apps/framework where you see the placeholders.
The reason you can't add it to your file is in your file where it saids "services" it should say "system". And a few other things is wrong w/ your file that I will list when I get a chance.

touchpro247 said:
Don't do that. Just drag your app and framework folders to my zip.
Or
Copy and paste your apps/framework where you see the placeholders.
The reason you can't add it to your file is in your file where it saids "services" it should say "system". And a few other things is wrong w/ your file that I will list when I get a chance.
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Woot...worked perfect...thanks alot touchpro247!!!!

Hatman41 said:
Woot...worked perfect...thanks alot touchpro247!!!!
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Np...
This theme is badas* btw

touchpro247 said:
Np...
This theme is badas* btw
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Thanks...soon as I figure out why my Rosie is not working as it should I will post the theme for peeps to dl. I only put the theme together...I took 2 EVO themes and took the .png files that I liked and made this one. I am using the uncommon Rosie. I will prob also pull the clock as you can see in this screen shot you can see some of the other numbers in it...it only does this for the flip clock...the regular non-flip clock it does not do that.
***Edit*** Ok have the Rosie fixed...I forgot to include the services.jar from the uncommon pack.

Ok I have everything working correctly now have I have posted it here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9034373#post9034373

[theming help] Genie widget flashable.zip

hi I need some help with theming:
im having a hard time with the genie widget.apk. I´ve seen elsewhere that the gw should be flashed to System/apps but that not the case with my phone.On my htc desire it should be DATA/apps and I just can´t make a flashable.zip I get an error everytime(error at line1 something). I use a zipsign tool which works fine with system/apps maybe I need another tool, which leads me to my next question:
How do I make a flashable file where I move files to SDCARD / SYSTEM / DATA ?

acejacksooted said:
hi I need some help with theming:
im having a hard time with the genie widget.apk. I´ve seen elsewhere that the gw should be flashed to System/apps but that not the case with my phone.On my htc desire it should be DATA/apps and I just can´t make a flashable.zip I get an error everytime(error at line1 something). I use a zipsign tool which works fine with system/apps maybe I need another tool, which leads me to my next question:
How do I make a flashable file where I move files to SDCARD / SYSTEM / DATA ?
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Alright this you will love I had same problems search for Update Zip Creator 2.0 by Daneshm90 you will love it and as far as flashing data/app/ it doesn't work you have to know how to make your update script install with permissions otherwise they just get copied in the right folder and don't work.

Edubyah said:
Alright this you will love I had same problems search for Update Zip Creator 2.0 by Daneshm90 you will love it and as far as flashing data/app/ it doesn't work you have to know how to make your update script install with permissions otherwise they just get copied in the right folder and don't work.
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thats actually the tool i´m using by default , however I dont know how to make files copy over to Data/app and I also dont know how to make the zip creator move files to sdcard. I´ve only managed to use the updatezip creator to write to System/app, System/media and System/framework.
what should i do to get an update.zip with folders system / data / sdcard?

When I was trying I gave up when I would edit the generated update script I would get as syntax error what I started doing was put the data apps in a folder named Extra_apps or the theme name like Blue_Steel then tell update zip creator copy directories SDCARD then folder name and folder name again I wish I could help more but its something I'm trying to learn myself I believe w are going to have to learn to write the script manually I have asked on the update creator thread also never got an answer excuse the spelling on my phone thank god for swype..lol

[Script][Beta] Theme Backup/Restore

Hey,
Not sure if its the right section, but flashing themes is what got me to make this script in first place.
So this script essentially works like :
You drag/drop a theme update.zip onto it.
It then goes through the .zip and see's what its replacing.
Then from your phone it'll backup those files into a cwm flashable .zip
[Windows Only][Only backs up system partition content that .zip replaces]
Instructions :
Download this
Extract [To a directory whose path has no spaces or wierd characters]
Drag a theme update.zip onto UpdateBacker.bat
Follow through
Main purpose is so you have a backup incase of those theme flashes that ended up screwing things up.
Note : This is beta, i have only tested on mine.
Hope it works lol.
Updates :
Added adb/java check
Added push to sdcard

EDIT: The entire contents of the unzipped folder need to be inside the tools section of your sdk for the .bat to work.
This is a great little tool. First try for me worked flawlessly.
I'm on a Samsung Captivate if it makes any difference.

SwiftJudgement said:
EDIT: The entire contents of the unzipped folder need to be inside the tools section of your sdk for the .bat to work.
This is a great little tool. First try for me worked flawlessly.
I'm on a Samsung Captivate if it makes any difference.
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Hey.
Yea forgot to say adb/sdk has to be in path.
Glad u got it working.

If this is like any of your other scripts it'll be a God send. I'll give this a try when I get home.
Thanks.

dully79 said:
If this is like any of your other scripts it'll be a God send. I'll give this a try when I get home.
Thanks.
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Ur too kind.
Let me know if it works. If people like/use this then i will keep updating and adding features.

Tried this last night and it worked perfect. I backed up my current theme then applied a bunch of corrupt .9's resulting in force close city. Applied the backup and everything returned to as it was.
Top marks once again.
How about an option to backup to flash.zip or a Metamorph file, would this be possible?

dully79 said:
Tried this last night and it worked perfect. I backed up my current theme then applied a bunch of corrupt .9's resulting in force close city. Applied the backup and everything returned to as it was.
Top marks once again.
How about an option to backup to flash.zip or a Metamorph file, would this be possible?
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Cool glad it worked for you.
Not sure what you mean by flash.zip, it already creates a flashable update.zip. Unless ur referring to renaming it to something else ?
As for metamorph, perhaps but id imagine it might be tricky.

Sorry, I meant an option to choose between exporting to zip or metamorph.
I thought a metamorph option might be a bit tricky, but if you don't ask you don't get

hi
can you reuploade the file please. i want to try this.
greets markus

katsching said:
hi
can you reuploade the file please. i want to try this.
greets markus
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Try, again

hey thank you very much!

ähhmm hmm ... how i use this tool exactly? where i find this theme update.zip?

[GUIDE] Add Ringtones, Notifications, Alarms as flashable zip + [Stock Sounds]

Make your own flashable zip so you can add any song you like on to your phone.
Instructions:
1. Download the DIY-sounds.zip
2. Open zip but do not extract it
3. Navigate through "system" until you get to the folder that you want to make changes to
4. Drag and drop your song in that folder
> e.g. if you want a new alarm, navigate to "alarms" folder and drop your song in to the alarms folder
5. Delete the README.txt
6. Navigate to the other folders and add your songs there too
> If you don't want to add any other songs, just delete the README.txt files in each of the other folders
7. Nandroid backup
8. Flash in recovery
Note: Don't delete the README.txt files without first putting something in that folder, or the directories will disappear

Stock HTC sounds
These are stock HTC Desire HD sounds in a flashable zip format
Have you just flashed a new AOSP rom and you've realised that all of your favourite ringtones or notifications or alarms sounds are gone now?
I got used to the new sounds, but after briefly flashing back to stock recently I realised how much I missed the old ones!
There are two formats available -
1- Merge the stock sounds to the phone so that you keep all of the AOSP sounds as well (stock-sounds-merged.zip)
2- Remove all of the AOSP sounds and just have the stock HTC sounds on the phone (stock-sounds-only.zip)
Instructions:
1. Nandroid backup!
2. Flash zip in recovery
3. Enjoy
When flashing a new rom just stay in recovery and flash this zip straight after

will theses work on Sense roms ? sorry if its a stupid question ..

swazii said:
will theses work on Sense roms ? sorry if its a stupid question ..
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Not a stupid question, the zips also work on sense

Thanks for creating the diy flashable zip, it works perfectly and was exactly what I was looking for to add ringtones and notifications to my Nexus S.

will this work with the UI files too? (i like to change the Lock and Unlock sounds)
Thanks!

Jaws4God said:
will this work with the UI files too? (i like to change the Lock and Unlock sounds)
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Open the zip file without extracting it, add a folder under stock-sounds-merged.zip/system/media/audio/ called ui, and drop your sounds in there.

jkmartindale said:
Open the zip file without extracting it, add a folder under stock-sounds-merged.zip/system/media/audio/ called ui, and drop your sounds in there.
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will this work on Android 6.0 ROMS?
Thanks.

Jaws4God said:
will this work on Android 6.0 ROMS?
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I think so...I've been doing this with my own script on my Samsung SPH-L720 with CyanogenMod 13 and the only issue I've had is getting the media scanner to notice the new sounds. Give it a go and see if it works. If it doesn't, I might have something that could work instead.