Editing TouchWiz30Launcher.apk - Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I need a help. Please look at this topic
Code:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=822523&highlight=touchwiz
This man and many others people on XDA-forum editing TouchWiz app. Original homescreen by Samsung. They are changing icons, adding backgrounds etc etc. Please could anyone help me or anyone know how to do that? This app - TouchWiz30Launcher.apk - is in system/apps. How or in which program I could edit for example icons or add new dock to bottom? Anybody know?

Please for all. Could anyone help me with this?

ok first you have to be on jpy firmware then you have to take the twlauncher30.apk from the thread you referenced and you need to be rooted an use root explorer to install to your phone by backing up the existing .apk and .odex (rename see instructions in other thread) and then overwritting it with the one from that thread.
the one from that thread is de-odexed so you can edit the .png (icons) using microsoft photo editor or something else and then replace the .png directly in the .apk file with 7zip.. then you can put modified .apk on phone in sameway..
here is my modified version with a modified "bender" launcher icon
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Ok i learned this now but where I can change norification bar? In which app? Also in TouchWiz30Launcher.apk?

notification bar is in framwork-res.apk in system/framework..
same method using 7zip to change icons and then put back on phone with root explorer.. after putting back on phone stuff will start crashing and you should reboot.. (may need to pull battery).. make sure you have backups of originals.
notification pulldowns (not the bar) are much more comlicated and you have to change .jar files in the system as well.

Many thanks =) Changing icons in notification bar looks quite hard Is there any easier method?

what i did is find some other rom or custom rom you like and get the framwork-res.apk from that (you know you can just unzip the .apk and then use windows explorer to browser the directories to see all icons at once)
then you can open your framework-res with 7zip and the one with icons you like in another instance of 7zip and then just cut and past the icons (they need to be the same name... as some have additional icons and that entails decompiling and changing .xml files and recompiling and resigning.. much more complicated)... anyway just cut and paste directly from one 7zip into the other (your modifed framework-res from your curent firmware on your phone) then put it back on your phone.

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[Mod]Battstatt - spanish

Little mod to battstatt,to display battery info in spanish, has some minor glitches with the sizes except large one, and another one that happen when the battery is below 10% the message below that percent has the "_y_" in front, that's because how the numbers are written in spanish. dont know how to fix it without the source code or messing with the widget core.
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"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
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Hope someone find this useful.
any advice are welcome!
All the credits to http://blog.mudderman.com/ <- original autor of battstatt
thanks! it looks beautiful
Can you maybe explain how you changed the launguage?
I would like to make for my.
stifler05 said:
Can you maybe explain how you changed the launguage?
I would like to make for my.
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yea, sure, you need the program, apk manager, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695701
with this, you can extract the installed apk from your phone to your pc, then this pogram can decompile the apk, with this you get the main files for the widget to work, there is a folder called "res", and inside is another one called "values", there are two xml file in wich you can change the language,arrays.xml and strings.xml.
in that two files you can modify the languaje displayed, be careful when changing the names because of the dependencies with other setings in the widget.
then with apk manager, you can compile again the apk and install it in to your phone.
thats, all
hope helps you.
kmilof said:
yea, sure, you need the program, apk manager, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695701
with this, you can extract the installed apk from your phone to your pc, then this pogram can decompile the apk, with this you get the main files for the widget to work, there is a folder called "res", and inside is another one called "values", there are two xml file in wich you can change the language,arrays.xml and strings.xml.
in that two files you can modify the languaje displayed, be careful when changing the names because of the dependencies with other setings in the widget.
then with apk manager, you can compile again the apk and install it in to your phone.
thats, all
hope helps you.
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Thank you mate.
"Text Battery Widget" has spanish builtin

[Q] How to modify apps and themes

First of all thank you for reading this.
I've flashed Darky's ROM v6.0, it was working great. Then flashed this theme, it was still great, moreover even better.
Then I had the idea, what if I make the transparent background of the dialer a little bit darker so I extracted the DialerTabActivity.apk from Darky's ROM, changed the corresponding PNG, saved the new apk with TotalCommander and replaced the original DialerTabActivity.apk in the phone with RootExplorer. It was all right, it was working fine after reboot as well.
Then I had a greater idea, at least it seemed to be a great idea at that time What if I replace the gradient status bar background with a plain black background... I've done everything the same way with the framework-res.apk, yet after restart basically everything force closed. Tried to reflash the theme but it didn't help.
I was wondering what have I done wrong.
1) Why did it work with the dialer the first time and what went wrong with the framework-res.apk?
2) What is the correct way to do these modifications?
Thank you for all your help.
The method was fine. Both modified apks work after ROM reinstall.
Mods attached below.
Dark Transparent theme mod: Full black status bar
Based on XXJPX Dark Transparent 1.7 +AOSP +9patched images +No menu-button unlock +Extended menu +Circle battery mod
Download
Install:
Make sure that no custom wallpaper is set from the Gallery, use a stock wallpaper instead for now. At least this caused me problems first.
Flash it with CWM recovery
Works great on Darky's JPX ROM v6.0
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"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Dialer mod: 25% transparent black background
Download
Install:
Rooted device required.
Copy the corresponding file to clipboard with Root Explorer.
Go to the /system/app directory, click Mount R/W
Paste dialertabactivity.apk, overwrite the existing file and click Mount RO
Exit Root Explorer

[ICONS][MIUI] TouchIT HD ported for android

This a port of the iphone theme TouchIT HD for MIUI.
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"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
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The original theme was created by Lord Kokkei, and the HD upgrade was made by enzom21, both @ macthemes.net. Several icons came later by macthemes users.
This is a extremely small icon package, just the icons I use. Inside the MTZ there are some other icons, but need to be renamed to match the app package. If you want to add more, you will need to edit the theme and manually add and rename the icons you need. Sorry but i cant help you with that since I dont have those apps.
The template for new icons can be found here, and a lot of icons that can match apps in android market:
http://macthemes.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16806094
If you guys add more icons, you can post it here already renamed and I could update the pack to get a more complete package.
DOWNLOAD HERE
Help me, i would like to add new icons for my other app, but in this link:
http://macthemes.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16806094
... i don' t found any icons
And if i open your theme with winrar, i found preview and icons, so... in what folder i need to add icon?
Thanks
remix96 said:
Help me, i would like to add new icons for my other app, but in this link:
http://macthemes.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16806094
... i don' t found any icons
And if i open your theme with winrar, i found preview and icons, so... in what folder i need to add icon?
Thanks
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The file "icons" its really a zip without the extension... extract the contents, and rename the file to icons.zip, and then you can add more... just remember to remove the extension again inside the mtz.
For your custom icons you will need to make them, on that link at macthemes, there are some templates in PSD format you can edit and make your required icons.
Thanks so much! I was hoping someone did the hard work of porting this to miui.

[Help] Sense 4 ICS SystemUI.apk 9.pngs

Hi to experienced themers
can anybody help me, there is no compilation errors but
9 pngs become messed up.
How to fix thanks?
Also I'm trying to port an eqs to mdpi from hdpi, please help how to adjust size of header image
and notification Fonts icons size.
I already replaced all images to mdpi.
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"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Thanks
Conventional 9.pngs stretch the image so you can't have a full pattern in them, the screwy bits are those being stretched. From reading this thread (last few pages)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18790818
It seems sense uses repeater pngs you may find an answer or the help you need there.
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Hi, I've been having these issues for a long time. The only way to fix this is to take the PNGs that are stretched from an unmodified apk, and then make changes to the apk. After that, open your modified (and signed) apk as a ZIP and replace the PNGs you took out. Right now, this is the only way to fix this, since apktool optimizes these PNGs every time you use it.
Also, sometimes the .9.pngs are renamed to r.9.png, and lead to FCs. If this happens, rename them to .9.png, and it should be fixed
Thanks, now I will try. My only problem now is resize header and notification font sizes.
EDIT I copied default deodexed stock drawable-mdpi files but still desame
EDIT 2: removed r9, will see. results, still desame
EDIT 3: copied stock r9, results still systemUI FC
EDIT 4: renamed stock r9 to 9pngs success.
shrome99 thanks for pointing the exact answers.
Now to resize header image the one with provider text and notification fonts size, anybody pls.

[REQUEST] Help!

Please help me to decompile SystemUI.apk, I tried to put the notification bar transparent modifying this line of XML systemUI:
changing: android: id = "@ id / notification_panel" android: background = "@ drawable / notification_panel_bg" to "# 00000000" and soon after recompiling the APK tool nothing happens, it seems that the signature changes and my systemui is corrupted why the notification bar disappears.
Can someone teach me the correct way to decompile/compile system applications? Wanted it to be so.
Follows an example image:
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"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
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Drag the original meta-inf and manifest into the apk
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How to do it? Since these files will already be decompiled? We took a step by step I would appreciate
GiRaFa-SAMA said:
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How to do it? Since these files will already be decompiled? We took a step by step I would appreciate
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When you use apk-tools you could do a compile system app, it copies good signatures automatically
Whatever, if you want to copy the good signature, open your apk with winrar or 7zip, then open the original apk.
Drag and Drop the Folder META-INF and the file manifest.xml from the original apk to the new compiled apk.
And it's over
ezaechiel said:
When you use apk-tools you could do a compile system app, it copies good signatures automatically
Whatever, if you want to copy the good signature, open your apk with winrar or 7zip, then open the original apk.
Drag and Drop the Folder META-INF and the file manifest.xml from the original apk to the new compiled apk.
And it's over
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I use the tools apk modified by Madninj (think is asim who writes their nickname)
But anyway, thank you for explaining, and I've tried previously with apktool and it did not work, I'll try with 7zip.

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