[Q] Need help located things in framework, etc - Nexus S Themes and Apps

Just starting to mess around with everything and learning where everything is. I have a few questions though as I can't seem to find what I'm looking for.
Very simple things. Taking baby steps, lol. I changed some splash screens and backgrounds to apps to see if I could get everything to work.
1- Where is the file for the white background for messaging (and gtalk) so I can change it to black.
2- Where is the file for the the green status signal when connected to google. I wanted to change the colors of that but can't seem to find it. I found the icons and everything. 4g had 2, one was green but the rest of the icons weren't there.
I'm assuming there are transparent and a green color is behind them? Or how do they work. Thanks.

well, for your question #1, i can tell you its not in framework-res.apk. Its in each individual apk file for each app .
question #2, It should be located in the same directory with the other icons (which you appear to have explored.). Try doing a search after de-compiling for .png.
Word of advice. Dont mess with .9.png's yet . Get comfortable with the rest first.

h8rift said:
well, for your question #1, i can tell you its not in framework-res.apk. Its in each individual apk file for each app .
question #2, It should be located in the same directory with the other icons (which you appear to have explored.). Try doing a search after de-compiling for .png.
Word of advice. Dont mess with .9.png's yet . Get comfortable with the rest first.
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I knew each app has their own. I dont seem to see it. I looked at ever PNG in framework I don't see the green ANYWHERE.

did you decompile using APK tool or did you just open with something like 7zip?
Also, haven't played with Gingerbread theming much, but I'd take a peek into SystemUI.apk as well.

h8rift said:
did you decompile using APK tool or did you just open with something like 7zip?
Also, haven't played with Gingerbread theming much, but I'd take a peek into SystemUI.apk as well.
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There it is! Thanks.
7zip is what I'm using.
Where would the background be to change say the messaging app to black instead of white. What file am I looking for there?

h8rift said:
did you decompile using APK tool or did you just open with something like 7zip?
Also, haven't played with Gingerbread theming much, but I'd take a peek into SystemUI.apk as well.
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Yep. The signal icons are in the SystemUI.apk. As far as the Gtalk one, I'd check the talk.apk in /system/app, specifically the res/drawable-hdpi folder. It's most likely one of those files; however, I can't say for certain since I've never tried changing that one myself. Same thing for the Messaging app.
Better yet, check out what files this guy edited for his background and look at those ones yourself
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1163304

BlackHawkA4 said:
There it is! Thanks.
7zip is what I'm using.
Where would the background be to change say the messaging app to black instead of white. What file am I looking for there?
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The background for the mms apk is controlled via XML. Not sure of the exact name conversation list or something along those lines.
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ZiggSVO said:
The background for the mms apk is controlled via XML. Not sure of the exact name conversation list or something along those lines.
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I started to have a feeling it was in there. What's a good XML editor to use for that?

BlackHawkA4 said:
I started to have a feeling it was in there. What's a good XML editor to use for that?
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Notepad++
Just remember you need to decompile and recompile an apk when editing xmls.
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ZiggSVO said:
Notepad++
Just remember you need to decompile and recompile an apk when editing xmls.
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I guess that would explain why the XML didn't display anything useful in notepad++

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iPhone OS4 like folders for android

hi all,
The new iPhone has real cool folders that show which apps are in that folder (max of 9). Does anyone know if that is possible on android? would be cool to be able to enable that...
Seriously? They're right there when you hold your finger on the screen. This article is six months old, but I think everything is still the same.
Jezzz guys. I realy love me nexus and android. The fact that I like a certain feature on a different platform shouldn't discredit me...... I just like the fact that on my home screen I am able to see what is in the different folders I have withou having to open the folder or use morw than one icon place.....
Please open your mind.
On topic, the link doens't help me as that just explains how to get a folder and fill it. That part I understand. Now how to have it filled with smaller icons that show what is in that folder?
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For modifying the "regular" folders to do that, you need the code in the system framework.
There might be such option made in programs like Folder Organizer (which aren't "real" folders), but I'm not aware of any.
fubaya said:
Seriously? They're right there when you hold your finger on the screen. This article is six months old, but I think everything is still the same.
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Yes, but the iPhone 4 OS folder you touch it, and it slides down and you can see the apps on the main screeen without having to go back/forth. I think that is what he is really looking for and is a useful feature.
If you look through the market you'll find some "widgets" that basically scale down the icons and allow you to put four shortcuts in the place of one regular sized shortcut.
I don't recall the name of it at the moment.
I guess some people can't read nor can they name their folders.
They have to look at pretty little colorful pictures to show them what's in the folder. I gotta admit though, the iPhone folders are VERY cool.
JCopernicus said:
If you look through the market you'll find some "widgets" that basically scale down the icons and allow you to put four shortcuts in the place of one regular sized shortcut.
I don't recall the name of it at the moment.
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more icons widget?
Get Apps Organizer. No preview, but crazy cool looking icons.
Flash sense ROM you'll have folders.
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MaximReapage said:
Get Apps Organizer. No preview, but crazy cool looking icons.
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+1
apps organizer is fantastic.
make a 'group', drop it to your screen 1 2 or 3, make another group, do the same, then use them like 'intarweb' and 'communicate', or 'games' and it really makes selecting frequented applications a breeze.
i have 'phone' grouped with: gvoice, phone, sms
interweb: browser, gmail, email (3 accounts), facebook etc
money: craigslist, bank checks, check scanner, paypal, ebay, etc
it really makes the phone a breeze to use, even with tons of applications installed.
Lol it's funny how many people here hate the iPhone. Anyway, check out RomoApps "App Bar Widgets" at romoapps.com
Now that is what i was looking for! very slick and very good. Glad someone is willing to look beyond the flamewars!
Downloaded it and it is definitely a keeper! Thanks!
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I believe the MIUI ROM does this.
gibosn6594 said:
I believe the MIUI ROM does this.
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Miui I can vouch for doing it, and I love the rom =D if ya want it here's the link. If you like apple's UI, check it out for sure.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=789566
N1 running psfreedom recovery and MIUI! sent via XDA app =D
just found the solution, and apparently it was on my nexus the whole time. Add a new folder in folder organiser, and change the icon to: show items in icon.
voila, Iphone like folders. only thing missing is drag and drop into the folders, but personally think the way you have an overview in folder organiser is way better anyway. central place to manage the labels, and exportable to the sd card, so a perfect way to back up the settings, and labels!
pwvandeursen said:
just found the solution, and apparently it was on my nexus the whole time. Add a new folder in folder organiser, and change the icon to: show items in icon.
voila, Iphone like folders. only thing missing is drag and drop into the folders, but personally think the way you have an overview in folder organiser is way better anyway. central place to manage the labels, and exportable to the sd card, so a perfect way to back up the settings, and labels!
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This included in android? Where are you finding the option to change the icon to "show items in icon"? Or is this a third party app?
Unnecessary / hateful posts removed.
There's no need for this here. We're all intelligent people who have the right to prefer certain aspects of other operating systems, even though we may not all agree on the same things.
sprke said:
This included in android? Where are you finding the option to change the icon to "show items in icon"? Or is this a third party app?
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+1, only options I'm familiar with are the add folder and rename folder options...
conwick3 said:
+1, only options I'm familiar with are the add folder and rename folder options...
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Open Folder Organizer, select "labels", hit the arrow on the right of the icon you want to change, hit "icon", select option "show items in icon".

Dropbox glitch

Anyone know how come my dropbox web access on tablet hides first line of files or folders? Also how do you move the files from one folder to the other with the android app?
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Anyone know how come my dropbox web access on tablet hides first line of files or folders? Also how do you move the files from one folder to the other with the android app?
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Hi I don't know why you're missing the first line unless it is to do with font size I have mine set to large and do get an overlap on some websites/apps .
Regarding moving files the only way I have been able to do it is by creating a new folder in dropbox and re-uploading the files to a specific folder I have created. Which is a bit long winded but doesn't really take to long if the files aren't to large.
Sorry I don't have anything more positive.
Mellowmark said:
Anyone know how come my dropbox web access on tablet hides first line of files or folders? Also how do you move the files from one folder to the other with the android app?
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I would seem that dropbox has addressed this problem with its latest update. All you do now is a long press on a file you wish to move, this will for want of a better word put it into edit mode all then do is put a tick in the box next to the file and any others you want to move and click on the send icon in the top right hand corner ( third one in ). This then brings up a menu asking where to send it ,just select any existing folder or create one before hand. The second icon in ,which looks like a couple of sheets of paper will copy your file/files to another folder without moving them .
I assume this is new as haven't noticed it before !!
Hope this solves your problem.

Need some info on Ui sound names

I just installed 24a and I'm modding my system ui tones back to what I had before and I can't seem to get the shut down tone to work and I wanted to see if someone could look on their phones and see if I have it named right
Edit** these can be found under system/media/audio/ui
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I just installed 24a and I'm modding my system ui tones back to what I had before and I can't seem to get the shut down tone to work and I wanted to see if someone could look on their phones and see if I have it named right
Edit** these can be found under system/media/audio/ui
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The names look right, but your permissions look wrong.........should be rw-r--r-- not rw-rw----
Try changing the permissions to see if it works.
Good call on that, It still isn't working but it's something that slacked on
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Drag and Drop Multi-window?

I thought you were able to drag and drop images and text between windows when in splitscreen. Is this not possible? I've tried both images and text with no success. Maybe I just don't know the way you're supposed to do it. Anyone use this feature and if so, could you enlighten me please? It would be really cool!
PsiPhiDan said:
I thought you were able to drag and drop images and text between windows when in splitscreen. Is this not possible? I've tried both images and text with no success. Maybe I just don't know the way you're supposed to do it. Anyone use this feature and if so, could you enlighten me please? It would be really cool!
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Only certain apps can. For example
Gallery and Messages.
Yoiu can drag a photo into messages and send a MMS.
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Tidbits said:
Only certain apps can. For example
Gallery and Messages.
Yoiu can drag a photo into messages and send a MMS.
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Does it seem to only be Samsung apps? I was trying to go from Samsung internet to OneNote. No dice.
PsiPhiDan said:
Does it seem to only be Samsung apps? I was trying to go from Samsung internet to OneNote. No dice.
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I believe it might only be Samsung apps. I think some non Samsung ones should but only if they used Samsung's SDK. If I remember correctly what is needed is in there. I have not tried any note apps.
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I create app pair with My Files + My Files .Then use them to drag and drop files or images in split screen mode.

Enable New Dark Mode setting for Google Phone (it's beta, but usable) - Root required

Hey everyone, I did a search and didn't see a quick guide posted about this so I thought I would write one up with some pictures real quick.
Pre How To Notes:
* the usual I am not responsible for your device, if you mess it up its on you etc etc. Make a back up or have an apk ready.
* I have only tested this on the v30= but im sure it will work on all devices running Google Dialer Beta 24.0.214850721 ( https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/googl...gle-phone-24-0-214850721-release/#description ). I am part of the Dialer beta and was not pushed the beta 24 release, so I had to manually update it to this one. The needed setting do not exist in beta 23.
* I am using the following 3 Magisk modules - Google Dialer and Contacts for OP5 and/5T - Android 0 Apt x libraries - Pixel Experience. These may or may not effect anyones ability to enable these features, but since I am going to post and run I figured it was easier to say such now than find out tomorrow that noone could replicate it and this is the reason why.
* I just saw @syndre post a magisk module for the dialer and contacts that is version 24. May or may not work with that, and maybe if you all ask super nice he will make a second magisk module that has dark mode enabled since I have never made a magisk module and wouldnt know where to start.
* You must have "Preferences Manager" installed from the play store (or wherever i guess) in order to do this. ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.simon.marquis.preferencesmanager&hl=en_US )
Ok so its fairly simple.
How To enable Dark Mode on Android Dialer
1) Open Preferences Manager (make sure it has root priv) scroll down to "Phone" app and select it.
2) Scroll over to dialer_phenotype_flags.xml and find the setting G__enable_dark_mode_setting and switch it from "false" to true
3) Now find com.google.android.dialer_preferences.xml and find the setting for display_options_dark_mode and switch that one from 'false' to "true".
4) Close out, force stop google dialer, reopen the dialer.
5) Go to dialer Settings, and select Display, then check Dark Mode - Enable.
Boom, you're done. Its a little buggy but it works and I havent had any issues.
Let me know if you have any questions
:good:I just replaced dialer in Pie with the modified version!! Dark theme is awesome at night, Thank you!! :highfive:
the extra app isn't urgently needed for editing the xml files these files are stored in
/data/data/com.google.android.dialer/shared_prefs
and can be edited with a simple text editor capable of root rights.
thanks for finding and sharing :good: merci
seadersn said:
the extra app isn't urgently needed for editing the xml files these files are stored in
/data/data/com.google.android.dialer/shared_prefs
and can be edited with a simple text editor capable of root rights.
thanks for finding and sharing :good: merci
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No problem and Thank you @seadersn .
I was originally going to get into a whole additional paragraph or two of alternative methods to enable the necessary flags but decided to just use Preferences Manager as the example because it seemed like the most foolproof and easiest way for any level of user to accomplish the necessary steps.
And I figured that anyone with more advanced capabilities would spot what was being done overall and could accomplish the changes however they were most comfortable performing them (your post of course being a prime example of it accomplishing just that)
JonnyTrulove said:
* I just saw @syndre post a magisk module for the dialer and contacts that is version 24. May or may not work with that, and maybe if you all ask super nice he will make a second magisk module that has dark mode enabled since I have never made a magisk module and wouldnt know where to start.
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Just taking a quick look it looks like those files have too much personal information in them for me to just straight-up replace them completely with a module. I think that one line of the preferences file needs to be edited by hand somehow by anyone this right now until the implemented fully. I changed the one line showing in the screenshot and notice there was a toggle switch in the dialer app now, switching that makes it look like the third screenshot. I can't use it like that, lol
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Thanks for this!
Can't get this working on my rooted lg v30. When I open preferences manager I have to show system apps to see Google phone. Then I have to scroll right to find data_rollout_dark_mode and set to true. Then scroll right again to display_options_dark_mode and set it to true. Force close app and no option for dark mode in display options when I open it.
Ballroomblitz said:
Can't get this working on my rooted lg v30. When I open preferences manager I have to show system apps to see Google phone. Then I have to scroll right to find data_rollout_dark_mode and set to true. Then scroll right again to display_options_dark_mode and set it to true. Force close app and no option for dark mode in display options when I open it.
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Are you still having trouble? If so I will walk through it with you and we can get it working.
JonnyTrulove said:
Are you still having trouble? If so I will walk through it with you and we can get it working.
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I am. Haven't tried again since my post. Thanks for the offer.
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I've tried a couple more times using different variations of the steps, and still can't seem to get the dark mode to show up in the application.
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I am. Haven't tried again since my post. Thanks for the offer.
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I've tried a couple more times using different variations of the steps, and still can't seem to get the dark mode to show up in the application.
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So I used se text editor to locate the files, and changed false to true. Force close dialer. Opened and still no dark.
Ballroomblitz said:
So I used se text editor to locate the files, and changed false to true. Force close dialer. Opened and still no dark.
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Because you did not enable it in settings.....
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BROKEN1981 said:
Because you did not enable it in settings.....
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I'd be more than happy to enable it if the option showed up. Thanks anyway.
just wait til g. releases it, fully functional; i do wait. atm it's ¾functional only, at its best. there are areas which aren't black-themed, which looks weird sometimes.
seadersn said:
just wait til g. releases it, fully functional; i do wait. atm it's ¾functional only, at its best. there are areas which aren't black-themed, which looks weird sometimes.
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I kept picking at it, and eventually edited the correct strings. I've got working dark mode.
the new v25 magisk module containing newest dialer version does indeed look good with dark mode just tried it again, it looks much more better than in the last version. i think next version will contain it officially, there's a new "__data_rollout__DarkMode.EnableDarkModeRollout__launched__" bool.
seadersn said:
the new v25 magisk module containing newest dialer version does indeed look good with dark mode just tried it again, it looks much more better than in the last version. i think next version will contain it officially, there's a new "__data_rollout__DarkMode.EnableDarkModeRollout__launched__" bool.
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Yes, that's the version I'm using. I agree, I think the dark version looks very nice. I'm a fan of darker themes.
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