I've been searching for a while (with no luck) on how to install custom icons for your apps on MIUI. I'm talking about individual icons, not icon packs, and not ones in themes.
I've seen this thread but I can't find the locations they are talking about.
Does anyone know how to do this?
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Can anybody help?
I've tried This and it didn't work either.
Transfer your theme file (the mtz) to your computer, change the file ending from mtz to zip.
Unzip it, open the "icons" folder and then you're ready
When finished, zip all the folders again, change it to mtz, and voila!
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BazookaAce said:
Transfer your theme file (the mtz) to your computer, change the file ending from mtz to zip.
Unzip it, open the "icons" folder and then you're ready
When finished, zip all the folders again, change it to mtz, and voila!
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Have tried it. I change the .mtz to .zip, extract the files, change an icon in the "icons" folder, zip the file back up, change it to .mtz and it doesn't work.
When I say it doesn't work, I mean, when I do 'import theme', it tries to, but no new themes show up in my 'offline themes'.
Also I've changed the .mtz to .rar and extracted it that way, turned it into a RAR again, and changed it to .mtz. Still nothing. Does anybody know what I'm doing wrong?
Do I need my icons template to be the same size as all of my icons? Is something getting corrupted, or what do you think is going wrong?
I konw that the import themes works for normal themes though because I've done it.
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I have Go launcher ex and some icon packs,
how to i manually say that i want a specific application (in app drawer) to use a specific icon in the icon pack?
long press the app icon on the dock and you ll get more option like to change the shorcut or change its icon
That's for the dock icons. I want to change the icons in the drawer
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i use to download themes when i used go launcher. try some themes
yup,but i don't get to choose the specific icons i want, i don't get the icons i really one from just one theme
you would need to use apk manager for that, just decomplie a application, replace the icon with the one of your choice, recompile, install and walla! its time consuming though.
that is more tiring if you get tired of the icons abd want to change em again..
why dont you try editing the theme itself ?
fatexo said:
that is more tiring if you get tired of the icons abd want to change em again..
why dont you try editing the theme itself ?
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how can i do that? i'm using go launcher ex
backup the theme apk on sdcard then transfer it to ur PC.
rename the .apk extension to .zip extract it
delete the 'META-INF' folder and navigate to res/drawable
here you will find all the icons,docks and many things.
mess with them as you want then come back to where you deleted the META folder and create a new zip file.
drag and drop all folders and files as it is in the new zip file.
rename the .zip extention to .apk.
sign it on PC using the auto sign tool and then install on ur phone
you can even change the look of widgets and things using this method.
hope i helped instead of confusing you..
Folder Organizer should be able to do it for you.
thanks i'll give the folder organizer first. looks like easier to try first
Is there anyway to extract icons out of them if not?
You have to be on miui to /use/ it, but otherwise it is simply a zip. Change the file name to .zip if you need to, and pop it open.
extracting it worked but the icons are a Unix executable file...how to you get the icons out of this file?
Wha?
Um...
Oh, right. Probably a new format .mtz
Change the icons to .zip aswell, and any other folder you want to open too.
I just extracted one too, but the icon file is not a mtz. Any thoughts?
just rename icons to icons.zip and extract
Im using 7zip and take the png and icon and convert to cm7 themes
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Ok, so I'm trying to add icons to this theme, I don't have a computer, let that be known. So my exact process, all done my phone is:
Open androzip
Rename mtz to zip
Extract zip to folder
Rename icons to icons.zip
Extract icons.zip into folder
Replace icons with proper activity names.
Multiple select and zip icons, not the folder but the individual files.
Rename to icons
Move to parent folder
Edit description.xml
Zip files into themename.zip
Rename zip to mtz
Open file explorer and click new mtz
Screen flashes and I get warning message of "theme does not have the required resources" and closes.
Please, tell me where I'm going wrong?
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You don't HAVE to edit the xml.
To select a theme you have to do it in theme manager not file explorer.
Um, thanks, but I doubt it's my problem, I've tried that.
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Upload your mtz and I'll check it out.
I know sometimes when I'm editing mtzs on my phone I'll zip a folder by accident instead of just the files.
If it's saying no resource something, it's not reading the files. Possibly a folder too much....
http://db.tt/P0m95aPP
Thanks again.
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Alright....yeah you had the icon folder doubled up. icons.zip/icons.zip/
But i fixed it for you and made the preview folder. All you have to do is take off the .zip extension as you could see it's "hfg.mtz.zip" i just threw the.zip to be able to upload it to xda.
Cheers
thanks guy~
Hi, I am trying to make changes to an icon theme but keep getting "Wrong theme format" error in the Miui v4 theme manager.
I used the same process I did back on GB that worked... renamed the .mtz to .zip, extracted it, renamed icons to icons.zip, extracted it. Then I edited .png's in the icons folder, zipped all the .png's into a file called icons.zip and removed the .zip by renaming icons.zip to just icons. Then I zipped the files: description.xml, icons, and preview folder. I renamed this .zip to a .mtz, pushed it to my phone and tried to apply the theme but got the error. I've searched but haven't found any solutions.
Has the icon theme format changed for v4? Thanks for any help.
Just take a MIUI icons set (like Cain HD for ex)
- open the .mtz using 7zip (no need to rename or change extension)
- double click on "icon", drag and drop ur icons.
- then close everything, it will ask u if u want to update/refresh the file. say YES and that's it
Raulinho7 said:
Just take a MIUI icons set (like Cain HD for ex)
- open the .mtz using 7zip (no need to rename or change extension)
- double click on "icon", drag and drop ur icons.
- then close everything, it will ask u if u want to update/refresh the file. say YES and that's it
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I would've tried this method but unfortunately I have a Mac and haven't been able to find a good 7zip equivalent :/ Any idea why it worked when I decompressed/compressed mtz's on GB but not ICS? The format all seems the same.
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I would've tried this method but unfortunately I have a Mac and haven't been able to find a good 7zip equivalent :/ Any idea why it worked when I decompressed/compressed mtz's on GB but not ICS? The format all seems the same.
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My guess is that somehow you didn't package it correctly. Double check to see if that's the issue.
i did it this way
if i have an iconpack in wrong size, i first resize the icons
then i mark all icons and add them to an archive with 7zip
now i take the icons.zip and the description.xml add it to a new zip
inside the zipfile, i rename the icons.zip into icons and you are ready^^
Have you tried using the 'store' option - I.e. no compression?
Changing the extension while inside the theme zip will also help to avoid certain issues.
Well I was able to get it working by using StuffIt Archive Manager to replace icons without uncompressing/compressing the mtz. Still strange it doesn't work when I uncompress it. I'm positive I package it back in the same way, I've triple checked. Guess I'll just have to use the StuffIt Delux trial for now.
is it possible to change/mod icon sets to work with miui? how do i get icon packs in the psd, png, jpg format into an mtz to work with miui, i was specifically looking at the pace icon set and dope icons by filipovsky.
it's easy, download a miui icons themes or a miui theme .mtz, change .mtz in .zip. Open it with winzip or 7zip. Inside u may have a icons file, unzip it and add .zip in the end. Then open it with winzip or 7zip.
now u have the icons of the theme.
If U want to replace some or all , be care to keep the name of the icon u replace, because it's the name of the Application in miui.
thank you for your reply i will give that a try.
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thank you for your reply i will give that a try.
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hmm everytime i try it says successfully applied but always just replaces the icons with the stock MIUI set, i opened up the icon.zip inside the .mtz file deleted all the old.pngs and put the new ones i want in converted in and thats it right?
buzzandwire said:
hmm everytime i try it says successfully applied but always just replaces the icons with the stock MIUI set, i opened up the icon.zip inside the .mtz file deleted all the old.pngs and put the new ones i want in converted in and thats it right?
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You have to zip it properly. open the icon folder and select all icons, then right click and go to 7zip add to archive. take resulting zip and rename to icon and put it in the theme folder . select all files in the theme and right click and 7zip add to archive again. rename to .mtz and apply
buzzandwire said:
hmm everytime i try it says successfully applied but always just replaces the icons with the stock MIUI set, i opened up the icon.zip inside the .mtz file deleted all the old.pngs and put the new ones i want in converted in and thats it right?
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You need rename each image to right package name, or it will not work with miui, when you done , put all theme in one folder, zip all files ( not folder ), and change archive name to "icons" with out extension , then add "description.xml" and maybe some preview image, and zip both these thing to one zip file and rename to "YOUR_NAME.mtz" and it should work .
Sorry my bad english :fingers-crossed:
tung91 said:
You need rename each image to right package name, or it will not work with miui, when you done , put all theme in one folder, zip all files ( not folder ), and change archive name to "icons" with out extension , then add "description.xml" and maybe some preview image, and zip both these thing to one zip file and rename to "YOUR_NAME.mtz" and it should work .
Sorry my bad english :fingers-crossed:
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"You need rename each image to right package name, or it will not work with miui," i think this is where im going wrong but i dont quite understand what im supposed to be renaming them to? i've been trying to convert these....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27402389&postcount=16
so some of the names are cup.png , microphone.png, what would i rename those too before i zip them all up?
thanks.
Well the easiest way would be to take an existing icon folder from a theme with many icons and copy the icon names to the corresponding icons in your folder.
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I went ahead and converted those for some practice. I removed the ones I didn't know what to do with, like the cup and star, for example. all are working except the $ which I wanted to be Wallet, but I haven't figured out the name yet.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/22845252/Circimal icons.mtz
hoppermi said:
Well the easiest way would be to take an existing icon folder from a theme with many icons and copy the icon names to the corresponding icons in your folder.
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I went ahead and converted those for some practice. I removed the ones I didn't know what to do with, like the cup and star, for example. all are working except the $ which I wanted to be Wallet, but I haven't figured out the name yet.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/22845252/Circimal icons.mtz
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sweet, thanks for doing that, great to see an example, gonna check em out, thank you!