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Has anyone tried this on the captivate? I'd like to install via Metamorph, but I'd like success stories first. Thanks

dressanderc said:
Has anyone tried this on the captivate? I'd like to install via Metamorph, but I'd like success stories first. Thanks
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You can be the first one to try it and report back.

wOoT_WoOt said:
You can be the first one to try it and report back.
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Ha ha .....no. But thanks for the offer

dressanderc said:
Ha ha .....no. But thanks for the offer
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You are the one who is interested in this. Make a Backup, install your theme, if it works great, if not, just restore to your back-up. There is no fear of bricking your device. Dont be expecting people to just install things to see if they work for you. This is a community everyone should contribute!

Thats awsome logic, however i have no knowledge of how to even make a backup, much less get a successful one. Ill be the first to admit, too, that im not very android savvy yet when it comes to the mod scene, and if something messes up, the forums would explode with me asking questions on how to fix my phone. Im also not going to loose my job because I have to explain to my boss that I bricked my phone because I wanted to make it look different. Im not a developer, im a user, and i cant afford to blindly walk in to something without knowing side effects.

dressanderc said:
Thats awsome logic, however i have no knowledge of how to even make a backup, much less get a successful one. Ill be the first to admit, too, that im not very android savvy yet when it comes to the mod scene, and if something messes up, the forums would explode with me asking questions on how to fix my phone. Im also not going to loose my job because I have to explain to my boss that I bricked my phone because I wanted to make it look different. Im not a developer, im a user, and i cant afford to blindly walk in to something without knowing side effects.
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You dont need to be a developer to do this. I recommend you check out the PMC (Pimp My Captivate) guide posted in the general sections for the captivate. Also, if your new to the mod world and xda in general, I will be the first to say welcome. We have a great community of moders, users, and developers here who are extremely helpful. Most questions probably have been asked, and answered already. Use the Forums search feature to see if it has been, or if you want to learn how to do something search it, there are a TON of guides on the forums about moding and developing!
For making a backup you can do this, by going to the Android Development Section, and Reading the ClockworkMod Custom Recovery
its simple and easy for making sure you never brick your phone!

got me curios ill do it. reply when i get home.....

ok it installs fine over TwLauncher but not launcherPro. now you just have to find some themes that are made for 2.1 eclair rom. most of what i found was for CyanogenMod. don't know anything about this mod but i hope this helps some one. i now think this is of intrust to me too. so if we could get a captivate tut for this thing (past instillation) like actual installing of themes that would be great thanks.

Yea metamorph works fine some times it bugged out with ADW when I first start up the phone but other than that metamorph works great. I'm using the evo blackbar mod.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

Apple Pi said:
Yea metamorph works fine some times it bugged out with ADW when I first start up the phone but other than that metamorph works great. I'm using the evo blackbar mod.
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Same I am using the Evo blackbar mod and LOVE IT!! I would LOVE to do more with the phone, especially something like having the HTC sense ui on my Captivate.

smeltn said:
Same I am using the Evo blackbar mod and LOVE IT!! I would LOVE to do more with the phone, especially something like having the HTC sense ui on my Captivate.
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you can get Launcher Pro Skinned to look exactly like Sense UI actually

Something like this?
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tommyb227 said:
ok it installs fine over TwLauncher but not launcherPro. now you just have to find some themes that are made for 2.1 eclair rom. most of what i found was for CyanogenMod. don't know anything about this mod but i hope this helps some one. i now think this is of intrust to me too. so if we could get a captivate tut for this thing (past instillation) like actual installing of themes that would be great thanks.
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I second that. I installed it over Touchwiz and LauncerPro and I didn't see one change that it made. The only metamorph change that has actually ever worked for me is the Evo black bar mod.

[Q] Does D'odexing help the phone?

I heard of D'Odexing your phone......I know it's like a mirror file for lack of a better description needed to run things but I have heard combing the two makes for better perfrormance. If this is true.....how does it work and is there a "one click" way to do it......have had great success rooting and doing other things without using my PC. Thanks in advance.

Find a rom with de-odexed apks.
It's not really worth doing it yourself.

sturmeh said:
Find a rom with de-odexed apks.
It's not really worth doing it yourself.
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There's a deodexed rom in here somewhere.... I know a few of us were trying to port the Vibrant one over to the Captivate, but the creator of the Vibrant one did it for the Captivate. Just search in the Development section.
And btw, sturmeh, your avatar is amazing... hahaha

Karl_Tx said:
I heard of D'Odexing your phone......I know it's like a mirror file for lack of a better description needed to run things but I have heard combing the two makes for better perfrormance. If this is true.....how does it work and is there a "one click" way to do it......have had great success rooting and doing other things without using my PC. Thanks in advance.
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Google is a wonderful tool - it saves one from many misconceptions:
From Droid Forum
De-odex: Apk files have respective odexes that devs use to supposedly save space. Deodexing means you convert it back to a .dex file and put it back inside the apk. This allows you to easily replace files (not having to worry about odexes), but the main point was to deodex services.jar so that you can change all text to different colors (such as the clock color to white) and to deodex services.jar, you need to deodex everything.
In simple terms de-odexing lets you easily theme things - I have never seen it mentioned in discussions on performance.

Fortune090 said:
There's a deodexed rom in here somewhere.... I know a few of us were trying to port the Vibrant one over to the Captivate, but the creator of the Vibrant one did it for the Captivate. Just search in the Development section.
And btw, sturmeh, your avatar is amazing... hahaha
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It was difficult to get barcode scanner to read that.
EDIT: I don't know if you created that or not, but I totally just stole it and made it my profile picture on facebook (I didn't have one before). I'll have to look for an app that makes QR codes, that could be a lot of fun!

QuickMark from the Market makes QR codes.

Progress towards Notification Menu Power Widget Mod on Inc Framework

Ok. So as of now I have put about 19 straight hours of work into porting this thing over.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=836721&page=27
Of the necessary edits, I have all but one single smali completely finished. Im hoping to get this working before i pass out...literally
Thanks to JsiChiSurf for putting this together, the amount of work that went into was MASSIVE and you should all buy him a beer for it. Hes been extremely helpful as I waded though the (no exaggeration) thousands of lines of code he modified.
Also I wanna say thanks to Lou for browsing the thread when I visited his profile page or i wouldnt have noticed it last night.
As of now theres nothing to see, nothing to show you guys, but rest assured, its getting there. this is a HUGE mod, itll take some time. Look for it in my rom that ill be releasing in a week or so.

try apk manager
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695701

incubus26jc said:
try apk manager
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695701
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still no go :/

upload your files... I will do it

incubus26jc said:
upload your files... I will do it
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the issue wasnt actually apktool. looks like jsichisurf didnt have the extended battery mod (1-100%) on his base rom, so the ids from the new images needed for his mod conflict with the pre existing ones from the battery. im trying to find a way to set new ids for them all :/

got all three files to compile, just pushed them to my phone, rebooting now. hopefully i got this successfully ported to the inc framework!

well, if anyone interested in my progress, i almost have t successfully ported over. the framework-res and framework.jar files install without a hitch. the problem is the StatusBarService.smali in services.jar all the other ones ive been able to "port" over, but i havent been able to get it to work with that one, it gets JUST before the final boot and then starts to loop. you know the little vibrate your phone gives right before it goes from the boot animation to the homescreen? it gets that far. im close.
i figure once i get it working ill turn this int to official thread for the mod. wish me luck

Good luck! Looking forward to this. Thanks for all your hard work.
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Shaundiesel said:
Good luck! Looking forward to this. Thanks for all your hard work.
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App
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i think i just got the services.jar to sucessfully install. just need to see if i can get all three to go nicely together
and of course to make sure i did actually did it right xD

I was just thinking this would be much better then the recent apps list. Cool to are you're working on it. Looking forward to this!

I would just be careful. Lou from the RR Rom ported it and there is some 3g issues. You can find the thread in my Sig.
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Ultimate Droid ROM has something similar to this. If you're having problems perhaps look at his code and see how he did it? I don't really know anything about this stuff so i apologize if that sounds dumb

morph3k said:
Ultimate Droid ROM has something similar to this. If you're having problems perhaps look at his code and see how he did it? I don't really know anything about this stuff so i apologize if that sounds dumb
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Chances are its STOLEN...but no being serious, Ultimate Droid is based on the Cyanogenmod's main code base and is another AOSP (built from google's source) rom. As the OP stated, it took so long because he basically had to decompile the already built sense rom, then write what cyanogenmod already had done for the cyanogenmod toggle widgets into that new decompiled code.

djh816 said:
Chances are its STOLEN...but no being serious, Ultimate Droid is based on the Cyanogenmod's main code base and is another AOSP (built from google's source) rom. As the OP stated, it took so long because he basically had to decompile the already built sense rom, then write what cyanogenmod already had done for the cyanogenmod toggle widgets into that new decompiled code.
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isn't the point of google AOSP to be open source. How do you "steal" open source code?

I believe MIUI has it also

Therev29 said:
I believe MIUI has it also
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MIUI has a scrollable one and CyanogenMod has it.

colonel187 said:
isn't the point of google AOSP to be open source. How do you "steal" open source code?
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You take it without giving any kind of credit and pass it off as your own.

Desp1sedIcon said:
You take it without giving any kind of credit and pass it off as your own.
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I love Despised Icon!! When I heard "The Sunset Will Never Charm Us" I was sold

incubus26jc said:
I love Despised Icon!! When I heard "The Sunset Will Never Charm Us" I was sold
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I see death metal has its evil following even in the phone forums.
I liked DI more before their last few records.

this would be so cool. i hope you get it.

[SOLVED] Black GTALK

Hello everybody ...
Cud someone please give me a stepwise breakdown on if/how I could get gtalk to have a black theme
(or give me a link to a black gtalk apk that I could use to replace the stock one ) ?
I did search before posting this thread.. and found this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=821214
but that OP's just stating tht the gtalk app inside another ROM is black in color.
I'm sure this has been asked / done before, and if it has, please don't hammer me...
It's just that I am new to android, and some of the google results i got for 'black gtalk app' said some scary sounding things like deodexed (?)
And - I haven't rooted my Nexus S yet (yes, i know.. i'm a bit scared still.. )
Help please?

All you had to do is go to the second page.
On the second page of that thread posted by Jack_R1
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=821214&page=2
(Unsure if it works on Gingerbread)
And you'll most likely need Root for this to work since google talk is a .apk within /system/app/
/system/app/ cannot be modified unless you're rooted.
Rooting is relatively simple on Nexus S, don't be scared

zephiK said:
All you had to do is go to the second page.
On the second page of that thread posted by Jack_R1
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=821214&page=2
(Unsure if it works on Gingerbread)
And you'll most likely need Root for this to work since google talk is a .apk within /system/app/
/system/app/ cannot be modified unless you're rooted.
Rooting is relatively simple on Nexus S, don't be scared
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Uh-ohhh...you wouldn't believe the silly sheepish smile i have on my face now
woops...sorry for noticing that! :$
Since I will probably have to root my phone for this ... i'll wait to get one of my friends with more divine android skills to sit with me thru it
(don't ask -- years of "trying" to jailbreak iPhones has built up this weird phobia of hacking, and has put fears like: "oh noes! what if it goes wrong?" in my head)
I'll come around though, i hope
and thanks again, Zephik ...

abhilashraj said:
Uh-ohhh...you wouldn't believe the silly sheepish smile i have on my face now
woops...sorry for noticing that! :$
Since I will probably have to root my phone for this ... i'll wait to get one of my friends with more divine android skills to sit with me thru it
(don't ask -- years of "trying" to jailbreak iPhones has built up this weird phobia of hacking, and has put fears like: "oh noes! what if it goes wrong?" in my head)
I'll come around though, i hope
and thanks again, Zephik ...
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Haha okay. But if you don't want to wait for your "friend" to do it for you, here's a guide here to get you started towards rooting.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=895545
It's relatively simple

Yes- thanx again! I've read through those a few times and all the positive responses from 'first timers' have been tempting me a lot.
I'm actually waiting for the phone to launch officially in Dubai (rumored to happen in the week after next), and then I think I'll become a bit more brave to fiddle with it..
but if i muster enough courage before that, I'll definitely follow that guide ..
(psst: please be on standby with some emergency XDA paramedics, in case you hear me yelping, after a not so successful rooting attempt )

abhilashraj said:
Yes- thanx again! I've read through those a few times and all the positive responses from 'first timers' have been tempting me a lot.
I'm actually waiting for the phone to launch officially in Dubai (rumored to happen in the week after next), and then I think I'll become a bit more brave to fiddle with it..
but if i muster enough courage before that, I'll definitely follow that guide ..
(psst: please be on standby with some emergency XDA paramedics, in case you hear me yelping, after a not so successful rooting attempt )
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You have any idea if it's going to be a I9020 or I9023? There's reports of I9023 rooting of not completely working. Something about cache partition, I'm sure it'll get fixed.

zephiK said:
You have any idea if it's going to be a I9020 or I9023? There's reports of I9023 rooting of not completely working. Something about cache partition, I'm sure it'll get fixed.
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I'm inclined to think it'll be the Super Clear LCD one .. because the Dubai/UAE market seems to be like a Singapore-market follower .. and the SLCD version has just been announced there..
The SAMOLED is partly why I'm happy that I went through some bit of trouble (and a LOT of worrying) to get my NexS delivered safely from Austin..
But boy am I in love with it!
I dont think anyone's been able to pry it out of my hands since it landed (touchwood)
And, like you said... I'm sure the i9023 would get rooted soon enough by folks here
[maybe Google could just officially link to the XDA as their main 'user support forum' .. ]

I was able to push the gtalk and the google voice to the Nexus S. I have it installed on the nightly cm7 #26. The google voice is working but the gtalk is failing to connect to the server.

i was able to install but it hangs on a black screen where my contacts should be but nothing displays. theres also the refresh circle in the top right that keeps going. then if i selct anything via menu button push and go back it force closes on me.

Can someone tell me why is it marked as SOLVED when it does not work on the nexus S? I want this feature badly, if anyone has any idea pls share.

miklosbard said:
Can someone tell me why is it marked as SOLVED when it does not work on the nexus S? I want this feature badly, if anyone has any idea pls share.
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I totally agree but there is a solution now for sure. DARKGINGER NEW 4/5/11 DarkGapps4511.zip this is just gapps for the people not using the nightlies. These work on any HDPI phone running Gingerbread! THIS HAS WORKING DARK GTALK.

jerrycycle said:
I totally agree but there is a solution now for sure. DARKGINGER NEW 4/5/11 DarkGapps4511.zip this is just gapps for the people not using the nightlies. These work on any HDPI phone running Gingerbread! THIS HAS WORKING DARK GTALK.
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wasnt very useful to state it and then not link it. here you go
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=935580

Sorry, didn't see the point when he has his own thread.

[Q] [request] dark dialer, contacts, and mms

I have the at&t version, i537 and back in the 4.2.2 days some of us used the darkblue themed apps from the international version. I was wondering if someone with the international version would be willing to upload the SecPhone, SecContacts_OSup, and SecMms apk's, with appropriate odex files from priv-app? This bright white is really bugging me. Thanks

did you ever find a solution? As, I was doing the same and finally decided to upgrade to 4.4 and hate the white.

bubba9004 said:
did you ever find a solution? As, I was doing the same and finally decided to upgrade to 4.4 and hate the white.
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Im trying to do something dark now.I just deoxed my phone and am going to try to take dark dialer from hyperdrive rom and put it on.If that dont work im going to try to theme it myself.Ill definitely share if I figure out though cause I hate the white also.
Edit--- So i got dark dialer and dark contacts and mms but the dark mms keeps crashing.Im going to try to decompile and theme myself so hopefully it stops crashing.Ill keep you posted.

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did you ever find a solution? As, I was doing the same and finally decided to upgrade to 4.4 and hate the white.
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No I never did, not for the phone stuff. I had been using some things from UltimaROM (playstore, and youtube) but it looks like its not being updated anymore.

mikep2323 said:
Im trying to do something dark now.I just deoxed my phone and am going to try to take dark dialer from hyperdrive rom and put it on.If that dont work im going to try to theme it myself.Ill definitely share if I figure out though cause I hate the white also.
Edit--- So i got dark dialer and dark contacts and mms but the dark mms keeps crashing.Im going to try to decompile and theme myself so hopefully it stops crashing.Ill keep you posted.
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That would be amazing! Did you just download hyperdrive and pull out the useful stuff?
And please do keep us posted on mms.

[email protected] said:
That would be amazing! Did you just download hyperdrive and pull out the useful stuff?
And please do keep us posted on mms.
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Yes .Im at work so didnt do that much but when i get home to my computer im going to see what i can do.I tried 2 things but mms kept crashing.Ill figure it out or just theme myself dark.I just need some time at my computer to do it.As soon as i do it ill post here.The only thing that im not sure of is if it will work on odex rom.You might have to deodex the stock rom first.It also will be if your on 4.4.2 also so hopefully your on that.
If you google how to deoxed kitkat rom there are alot of tutorials on it.It was very easy.A little long but easy.

So I found dark dialers and mms that work but you cant send pictures in text message.If I can figure out ill post where I got them. IF not I'll figure out how to theme myself.
Edit so ive been playing around with themeing mms myself for past 2 hours.I went to recompile and got a error.So its going to be trial and error.I have a busy weekend coming up so not sure how much time ill have.Ill keep you posted though.Im not giving up till its themed.

So ive been playing around all day and found some themed mms but everyone I put on wont let you send pictures.If I have some time tonight im going to try to theme myself again.If you dont mind it not sending pictures I can post the hyperdrive ones.If you do mind it I need some more time.

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So ive been playing around all day and found some themed mms but everyone I put on wont let you send pictures.If I have some time tonight im going to try to theme myself again.If you dont mind it not sending pictures I can post the hyperdrive ones.If you do mind it I need some more time.
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Could you please post? I would use that most of the time, but then if I needed to send a picture could I still leave the stock one on?

[email protected] said:
Could you please post? I would use that most of the time, but then if I needed to send a picture could I still leave the stock one on?
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You only can leave stock one on if you change name.There both the same name.So I found a stock mms that you can theme yourself within the app.Give me a little while ill post screenshots of everything.Are you rooted and did you deoxed your rom? Are you using stock rom? If you didnt deoxed your apps I think youll keep getting force closings after changing phone, contacts, and mms.I tried to change those when I was odex and thats what happened.I just stepped on a giant nail and I cant walk so my plans arent happening now. I'm going to play around with some things and let me see if I can fix. I'll pay screenshots also. Please answer questions so I know what you have. Thanks

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You only can leave stock one on if you change name.There both the same name.So I found a stock mms that you can theme yourself within the app.Give me a little while ill post screenshots of everything.Are you rooted and did you deoxed your rom? Are you using stock rom? If you didnt deoxed your apps I think youll keep getting force closings after changing phone, contacts, and mms.I tried to change those when I was odex and thats what happened.I just stepped on a giant nail and I cant walk so my plans arent happening now. I'm going to play around with some things and let me see if I can fix. I'll pay screenshots also. Please answer questions so I know what you have. Thanks
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First and foremost...are you alright? Please take any time you need.
I am rooted but pretty much stock otherwise. I have not deodexed but I have seen several posts on how to do so. @blaz1nr has a couple mods and the one for the S5 conversion has a deodex_me.zip.
Thank you so much for your time.

[email protected] said:
First and foremost...are you alright? Please take any time you need.
I am rooted but pretty much stock otherwise. I have not deodexed but I have seen several posts on how to do so. @blaz1nr has a couple mods and the one for the S5 conversion has a deodex_me.zip.
Thank you so much for your time.
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I sent you a pm and ive also been messing around with some stuff.I had to restore my phone cause something got messed up so im waiting for that to finish then im going to try some things.

Hey guys, I did a little more searching around and found a solution thats working for me in blaz1nr's thread here. dkeepitabuck posted a link here to the deOdex_me zip, and tet1 posted a link here to a zip that works.
Hope this helps.

bubba9004 said:
Hey guys, I did a little more searching around and found a solution thats working for me in blaz1nr's thread here. dkeepitabuck posted a link here to the deOdex_me zip, and tet1 posted a link here to a zip that works.
Hope this helps.
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Nice im going to bed now but will try tomorrow when I get up thanks
Couldnt wait thanks man I got one that finally works, the mms I couldn't get to send pictures but this one does.So i just want to confirm everything dark works.Thanks ive been trying to get to work for past 3 days.Now time to change some pictures and some colors.

Im also working on a themed contacts ,phone , and mms.It wont be ready for a few days but ill post here when done just in case anyone is interested.

mikep2323 said:
I sent you a pm and ive also been messing around with some stuff.I had to restore my phone cause something got messed up so im waiting for that to finish then im going to try some things.
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Sorry. I've been checking but I never seemed to get any message.
I've still been following along here and can't thank you enough for the work you're doing.

[email protected] said:
Sorry. I've been checking but I never seemed to get any message.
I've still been following along here and can't thank you enough for the work you're doing.
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The ones that bubba posted work fine but you have to deoxed the rom.I have been themeing all 3 with a light blue theme.Like changing the text color and changing icons in the apps.Ill try to post some screenshots but there always to big.