Okay, let me start by saying that I know there are other threads here that discuss status bar transparency. I've read them... twice. I know there are guides for themeing, I know that those guides discuss making the status bar transparent. I know that others have posted flashable ZIP files with transparent status bars in them. That said, posting a link to a thread that talks about how to accomplish this probably won't help me. Telling me to decompile SystemUI and modify the StatusBarService.smali file and modifying the status bar .9s probably won't help me. I've been there and I've done that and it doesn't work, maybe it's Android 2.3.7? Maybe it's my ROM (Oxygen)? Maybe it's my launcher? I don't know. But, if someone could help me figure it out, I would appriciate it - likely in the form of a donation
Lastly, let me point out that I have the notification pulldown area transparent. What I want is the status bar. The bar at the top of the screen where the clock, battery icon, connection icons and such are displayed. There seems to be a little confusion as to the notification pulldown and the status bar, so I wanted to clear that up
Okay. Here is what I'm dealing with, what I've done thus far, and what I want.
I'd like to have exactly what user gimj01 has posted, like this:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"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"
}
Here is the thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1031106
To try and accomplish this, I've done the following:
1. Decompile SystemUI.apk
2. Using Notepad ++ I edit the StatusBarService.smali. I search for the line "invoke-direct/range {v0 .. v5}, Landroid/view/WindowManager$LayoutParams;-><init>(IIIII)V" and right above it is "const/4 v5, 0x2" I change this to "const/4 v5, -0x3"
3. I then save the StatusBarService.smali file and recompile the SystemUI.apk. I then sign it. (All using APKManager 5)
4. Then, I replace the META INF folder in the new SystemUI.apk with the folder from the original.
5. I then copy the .9s for the status bar from the downloaded SystemUI.apk (from the post linked above) and paste them into my new SystemUI.apk. I use ADB and push it back to the phone.
That's it. This process causes the status bar to disappear. Oh, the .9s I'm copying over are:
status_bar_background.9.png
status_bar_close_on.9.png
statusbar_background.9.png
title_bar_portrait.9.png
title_bar_shadow.9.png
So, then I tried just modifying the StatusBarService.smali file as stated in step 2 above. Recompiling and pushing back to the phone. Result = status bar disappears.
So, then I tried just copying over the .9s as stated in step 5 above. In this case, there is no need to recompile, so I just push SystemUI to the phone. Result = blurry icons and text (see the attached image). But, the background is still black.
So then, for grins, I tried editing the status_bar.xml file and changing android:background="android:background="@drawable/statusbar_background"" to android:background="@android:color/transparent". Result = blurry icons and text (see the attached image). But, again, the background is still black.
Because the result of the final steps (changing the XML file, swapping the images only) is still a black background, I feel like I'm missing something. Like Android is pulling that black from somewhere, I just don't know where!!
Now, if I'm crazy (and at this point, I'm feeling that way) and this can't be done, okay. But, I really think it can, I can't imagine that Android changed that much between 2.3.3 and 2.3.7. So if you can help and are willing to, I would appriciate it.
First off, let me say I am in no way a themeing whiz (or even very good for that matter) but I'll try to help as best as I can.
Another thing I should say is that the link to the thread doesn't work.
Those things said, let me see if I understand the whole scope of what you're trying to do:
Based on the files you listed as the nine patches you're trying to change, you want every instance of the status bar to be transparent (including when the notification pane is open?). In my experience, a disappearing status bar indicates an issue in the file that causes the system to just not open it, so there must be an issue somewhere. Usually, again in my limited experience, this is because of a stupid error that you just missed.
I'm not sure you'd have to edit the smali files to execute this, but I could very easily be wrong. I'm going to do some research and check back in a little bit to see if you were able to fix the link so I can see the file you were referencing.
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First off, let me say I am in no way a themeing whiz (or even very good for that matter) but I'll try to help as best as I can.
Another thing I should say is that the link to the thread doesn't work.
Those things said, let me see if I understand the whole scope of what you're trying to do:
Based on the files you listed as the nine patches you're trying to change, you want every instance of the status bar to be transparent (including when the notification pane is open?). In my experience, a disappearing status bar indicates an issue in the file that causes the system to just not open it, so there must be an issue somewhere. Usually, again in my limited experience, this is because of a stupid error that you just missed.
I'm not sure you'd have to edit the smali files to execute this, but I could very easily be wrong. I'm going to do some research and check back in a little bit to see if you were able to fix the link so I can see the file you were referencing.
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Link in OP fixed. Here it is again:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1031106
In terms of scope, I have the notification area transparent, and right now, I could care less about how it looks when you pull it down. I'm interested in the status bar (just as it looks in the image in the OP) being clear. I hope that makes sense. I copied all of the .9s from the downloaded SystemUI to be sure I got what I needed, which was probably overkill, but I wanted to be sure. Really, I guess I would only need the statusbar_background.9.png to make what I am after work since the status_bar.xml file calls out that file specifically for the status bar background.
The reason I'm going after the smali files is because of this post (step 6.2):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9978779#post9978779
Okay from what I understand you would just need to make one file transparent, titlebar.png or something like that. I'll look into it more and let you know!
Nobody...., really?
Nothing? No ideas?
I think what he mentioned works. I made one or two status bar mods for personal reasons so ill give this a shot.
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Sorry got called into work that day and just got home. Didn't get a chance to figure it out.
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slimdizzy said:
I think what he mentioned works. I made one or two status bar mods for personal reasons so ill give this a shot.
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I don't have a titlebar.png file. The png files that I have are listed in the OP. When I change any of the images to be transparent - or even copy transparent images from another clear status bar, I get what I attached in the OP, basically, fuzzy text and icons in a still black status bar.
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Sorry got called into work that day and just got home. Didn't get a chance to figure it out.
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Well, I suppose you're excused
You could use the UOT Kitchen, and in the status bar section at the top, click the option to use a transparent status bar. Then in the first section, set the transparency to 0%. Then go and upload your frameworks.res.apk and your systemui.apk under system files and let it do it for you. I did mine that way. Just search UOT kitchen. I would post the link but I'm on my phone.
Statusbar_background.9.png is the image file.
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I got it! Not sure yet what I did, but I'll backtrack and figure that out.
Everytime I've gone to the Kitchen it says it isn't open... maybe I have a bad link?
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I got it! Not sure yet what I did, but I'll backtrack and figure that out.
Everytime I've gone to the Kitchen it says it isn't open... maybe I have a bad link?
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Your link probably isn't bad. When they close it it is because it gets backed up. When you get that message just refresh the page every few minutes until you get in.
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If I change the look of the Rosie launcher, so instead of the curved stock one it's more in the style of say Espresso, which is flat, the line/bar that denotes what screen you are on still curves, following the line of the stock Rosie launcher. Does anyone know what file needs to be changed to make it run straight when you go from screen to screen?
I know I could just make it invisible but I'd like it to be there if possible.
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If I change the look of the Rosie launcher, so instead of the curved stock one it's more in the style of say Espresso, which is flat, the line/bar that denotes what screen you are on still curves, following the line of the stock Rosie launcher. Does anyone know what file needs to be changed to make it run straight when you go from screen to screen?
I know I could just make it invisible but I'd like it to be there if possible.
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Take a look inside Rosie.apk under /res/drawable-port-mdpi. It contains the button bar.
Have had a look in there but can't see a button bar. I have found the actual bar - "common_mainnav_scroller1.png" under "Rosie.apk\res\drawable-normal-mdpi" but as I say that's just the bar that moves. I need to find out what makes it move in the way it does, so that I can stop it curving and make it move horizontal.
That'll Be in one of the xml file won't it ?
It's not in Rosie.apk, I remembered wrong.
It's inside com.htc.resources.apk in /system/framework.
Same folder inside the file as I told before.
In there are the Rosie .png images, but changing those won't alter the direction of the nav bar will it? As "MacaronyMax" said I think it's an XML file. I just don't know which one it is
Hello,
Has anyone found which xml file needs to be changed to get that indicator to move in a straight horizontal line? I've tried searching Rosie.apk, com.htc.resources.apk and framework-res.apk but I couldn't find it.
Had the same problem with sense-villain 12. I had a look but can't find the drawables needed
This guy has figured it out. See here.
He has also remapped the Rosie buttons. This is the third time I've found someone that has been able to do this, but no one on the GSM Hero side seems to be able to do it.
jpool81 said:
This guy has figured it out. See here.
He has also remapped the Rosie buttons. This is the third time I've found someone that has been able to do this, but no on the GSM Hero side seems to be able to do it.
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Well what he has done can probably be applied to the Hero. BTW in the drawable you will find some precious XML files hehe
C0mpu13rFr34k said:
Well what he has done can probably be applied to the Hero. BTW in the drawable you will find some precious XML files hehe
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I'm gonna rip it apart and mash it back together for the Hero and see what I get. Most probably a boot loop lol
jpool81 said:
I'm gonna rip it apart and mash it back together for the Hero and see what I get. Most probably a boot loop lol
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Hehe probably But why not just look for the XML file? Usually the names makes sense and you can see from there what to do
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Hehe probably But why not just look for the XML file? Usually the names makes sense and you can see from there what to do
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Thanks. Will take a look.
oorrr..... ask the dev which file he changed to make it do that much easier
i'll pm him now if you havent got it working yet
Might want to thank ihtpfp69
You've got to change these values , and doing so you can make it any shape you like
Code:
<integer name="scroll_x1">
<integer name="scroll_y1">
<integer name="scroll_x2">
<integer name="scroll_y2">
<integer name="scroll_x3">
<integer name="scroll_y3">
(he didn't say what file that was in but im sure it can't be too hard to find , oh and im guessing thats stock
Thanks. I got a response from him also. The file is integers.xml and should be located inside the Rosie.apk \res\values-normal
Will look at this once I have also sorted the remapping of the Rosie buttons and some other stuff.
@macaroniMax and @jpool81
Wow, thanks you guys. That was REALLY helpful. Let me see if I can get it to change on my HTC Desire!
This is another great thread with lots of helpful information: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=697994
Great. Would be good to know of the result. It's good that Rosie can be changed in this way, although is quite complex at times, but once figured out It might make me revert back to it from AOSP.
jpool81 said:
Great. Would be good to know of the result. It's good that Rosie can be changed in this way, although is quite complex at times, but once figured out It might make me revert back to it from AOSP.
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Well, I can confirm that it works. Here's a screen dump of my phone.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"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"
}
As you can see, the current screen bar moves in a straight horizontal line as we switch screens (it's on screen 2 in the screenshot).
This was the only change I wanted and all I did was to make scroll_y1 and scroll_y3 equal to scroll_y2 (oh, in case you're wondering, the main launcher icon has also been changed in com.htc.resources, but that's not relevant to this thread).
ADDENDUM:
If you want to change integers.xml, simply opening Rosie.apk in 7-zip will not work because the res/values* folders are compiled when the apk is built and 7-zip will not be able to show them to you. This means you can't drag and drop the modified files as you can with png resource files. So, you need to decompile the apk first. To do this, I followed the excellent guide posted here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=697994.
One odd problem was that when I rebuilt the apk as described in that thread using the command:
Code:
apktool build Rosie
it was missing the security certificates (this is not a problem with the guide as it clearly says "make sure you sign the finished apk"). Since the security certificates are missing, simply pushing the apk to /system/app will not work (it will fail with an error about no valid signatures being found). On a side note, I found this strange because I read somewhere that Android does not check security certificates for system apps. Anyway...
If you follow that thread (the URL I posted) to its end, you'll find that someone else had the same problem. The solution suggested was to first sign the apk, create an update.zip, sign the update.zip and then install it using recovery mode. Strangely, this did not work for me (it seems to have worked for the poster who reported the problem in the other thread). I guess YMMV. My logcat shows that Android compares the signature of Rosie.apk against signatures for other system apps (shared_uid) and they don't match.
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Apparently, the following method has side-effects because I find that I cannot delete desktop shorcuts after the change. PLEASE DO NOT FOLLOW THE METHOD DESCRIBED BELOW!!!
So, I took the easy way out. I simply copied over the classes.dex and resources.arsc generated by
Code:
apktool build Rosie
to the original apk file (which had the original certificates to match the other system apps in the ROM I was using). I think this method will work as long as the total number and names of the files remain the same.
Just thought I'd put this down in case anyone else has the same problem.
EDIT - Updated post with working zip - EDIT
I've ported over the Frost theme, made by sonnysekhon for the HTC Desire. I went with that one since I'm personally not a circle battery fan. I added a couple pieces of work in here and there, but nothing major. I'd also like to take the time to thank fritzgerald for helping me with some smali edits. Thanks!
I've built this theme on top of Assonance 4.3, I'd assume it would work on all versions of Assonance (or any JK3 ROM for that matter) but I can't say for sure.
Here are some screenshots, downloads for the theme, and for the icons and wallpapers supplied by the original author are attached:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"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"
}
looks very clean thanks!
This doesnt work. i applied it from CW and nothing happens. It doesnt open, and the progress bar never changes... FYI
Im sorry but im curious what widget are you using in that second screen shot...id like to get that
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magnumrt562 said:
This doesnt work. i applied it from CW and nothing happens. It doesnt open, and the progress bar never changes... FYI
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Hmm this is my first time making a theme, or a flashable zip for that matter, so I very well may have done something wrong. I'll check it out when I get to a computer.
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yea this didnt do anythingfor me.. hopefully u can figure it out because its an awesome looking theme! thanks
Give this one a shot. Should be fixed.
very nice theme
Notification drop down needs some work. Toggle becomes unreadable toggled on.
fritzgerald said:
Notification drop down needs some work. Toggle becomes unreadable toggled on.
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Yeah, been looking for where that would be located, gotta be somewhere in twframework-res.apk. I've noticed a couple other things in the version posted, such as the search icon in settings being the wrong one, and I'm still working on getting the blue text in there to be white or gray.
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Ok does anyone know what widget that is
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rrrrramos said:
Yeah, been looking for where that would be located, gotta be somewhere in twframework-res.apk. I've noticed a couple other things in the version posted, such as the search icon in settings being the wrong one, and I'm still working on getting the blue text in there to be white or gray.
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Yeah its in the "twframework-res\res\values\styles.xml". I haven't applied the theme so I'm not sure where\what some of the issues are. The blue text for the settings menus is located in "framework-res\res\color\zzz_tw_secondary_text_sub.xml" on the 2nd to last line.
delutedsoul23 said:
Ok does anyone know what widget that is
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Sorry, which one? I have SiMi Clock widget, Beautiful Widgets Weather, Minimal Text Widget for the date, OneSeven for the day of the week, BattStatt for the battery percent, and then the phone, sms, and mail icons are SMS Unread Widget.
fritzgerald said:
Yeah its in the "twframework-res\res\values\styles.xml". I haven't applied the theme so I'm not sure where\what some of the issues are. The blue text for the settings menus is located in "framework-res\res\color\zzz_tw_secondary_text_sub.xml" on the 2nd to last line.
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Thanks for all of the help man, this port would not be possible without your help! I'll get started on this right away! Actually, gonna PM you after I post this about some stuff.
fritzgerald said:
Yeah its in the "twframework-res\res\values\styles.xml". I haven't applied the theme so I'm not sure where\what some of the issues are. The blue text for the settings menus is located in "framework-res\res\color\zzz_tw_secondary_text_sub.xml" on the 2nd to last line.
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Just a tip.. The hex code for the blue color is the same hex code for the blue text throughout the phone. Its found in different locations but it's always the same hex code.
Hmmm, "twframework-res.apk\res\values" doesn't seem to exist... :/
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Hmmm, "twframework-res.apk\res\values" doesn't seem to exist... :/
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Sorry. You need to decompile the APK first. Use APK Manager or apktool. If you simply try to extract the APK you wont see it. After you make your changes and recompile the APK it's all located in the resources.arsc. Messing with the xmls especially in the values folder you'll want to make sure you back up. I crashed my phone tons of times while learning that portion.
fritzgerald said:
Sorry. You need to decompile the APK first. Use APK Manager or apktool. If you simply try to extract the APK you wont see it. After you make your changes and recompile the APK it's all located in the resources.arsc. Messing with the xmls especially in the values folder you'll want to make sure you back up. I crashed my phone tons of times while learning that portion.
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Ah got it. Still seems like the zip won't flash, even the one you posted, and the one's I've made since... Either get error or it doesn't copy the files and sits at "Installing" as the second reply states... :/
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Ah got it. Still seems like the zip won't flash, even the one you posted, and the one's I've made since... Either get error or it doesn't copy the files and sits at "Installing" as the second reply states... :/
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I downloaded the current zip on the OP. Installed every time for me. Are you installing with CWM Recovery or stock recovery?
Running CWM, maybe it's just my phone :/
Now I'm getting stuck in a bootloop and my Nandroid b/u won't restore. Awesome...
(FYI, this was from working on twframework-res.apk, nothing to do with the theme posted in this thread)
I've made some changes to the framework and twframework files to get rid of the white text on the notification drop down as well as the blue text in the settings menu. Anyone willing to test out? I know the settings menu change works but I'm not sure on the drop down. I'm not running this ROM so it crashes my phone if I try to apply it.
Hi.
This thread was initially about changing the font colour which I have since achieved, but run in to a couple more issues that I can't seem to figure out. The image I've used for my notification area is set at 80% transparency in photoshop, but when viewed on the phone it's a solid image. I've tried creating a new image but get the same result.
I've used an image from my other theme which shows the transparency on my other theme but not this. I've used an image from another theme which in their screenshot shows transparency, but doesn't in mine. I thought it might be the services.jar, but having used the one from the other theme it's still the same, solid black on my phone, so I'm a little stumped?
I've also changed the stat_notify_sms image in contacts.apk, but it shows the default image when I get a message?
Like I said I'm not a noob, but could do with some pointers or suggestions?
Thanks
this helps you http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4113483&postcount=2
rori~ said:
this helps you http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4113483&postcount=2
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Thanks for the link, but I've still not managed to change it. Look at the image, to add code after the next instance of 00 00 1c puts me on the next line, when I do that I just get boot loops.
Sorted it, finally. I pulled each statusbar file from layout and went through them, so I've sorted the statusbar and the notification area. Could you point me in the direction of the operator text in the notification area?
XperiaX10iUser said:
Sorted it, finally. I pulled each statusbar file from layout and went through them, so I've sorted the statusbar and the notification area. Could you point me in the direction of the operator text in the notification area?
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should be statusbar_expanded.xml
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should be statusbar_expanded.xml
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Thanks for the suggestion, but I've been through all the statusbar xml's but still no change.
What am I missing.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"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"
}
its in: status_bar_expanded.xml
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its in: status_bar_expanded.xml
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You're right, I couldn't see for looking.
Thanks for the assist!
Need a touch more help, in my eagerness to change the font colour I've changed something but don't know what. The image I've used for the notification backdrop I've set at 80% transparency, but on the phone it's showing as a solid image? which obviously isn't the look I'm after.
Any help as always, will be much appreciated.
XperiaX10iUser said:
Need a touch more help, in my eagerness to change the font colour I've changed something but don't know what. The image I've used for the notification backdrop I've set at 80% transparency, but on the phone it's showing as a solid image? which obviously isn't the look I'm after.
Any help as always, will be much appreciated.
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you set 80% transp. in photoshop?
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you set 80% transp. in photoshop?
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Yes, I've done the same thing I've done with other themes but for some reason it's not showing the transparency on the phone this time round...
Hi.
Had to to start from scratch due to Zdzihu releasing a beta2 for the X10, but this time round I'm having new trouble, I've edited the files but my operator text and clock is still showing black text. Can someone take a look at my files, I've checked and double checked but still I've got black text. Any help would be much appreciated.
I've attached my statusbar xmls from layout and my smali files.
Check out this thread-
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831715
Hope this helps
dully79 said:
Check out this thread-
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831715
Hope this helps
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Thanks, but the reason I'm asking is because I have already changed my smali file to white, but see no change, where as before I did, and I've changed my files in res/layout too, and while my notifications are white, the carrier remains gray, and can't figure out why it worked before but isn't doing now.
Thanks for the link, but doesn't really help me understand what the problem is now.
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Thanks for the link, but doesn't really help me understand what the problem is now.
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Sorry, i thought point 3 might have helped.
You could try applying the original framework, see if changes apply, then re-applying your mod again.
I resolved a similar issue a few days back with that method, seems it just needed a kick up the arse.
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Sorry, i thought point 3 might have helped.
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That's why I've uploaded the files hoping some could take a look because I've changed every file like I did before, but the clock and the carrier text refuses to change, and don't really want to start from scratch for a third time.
As far as i know from cooking themes for dell streak, the rom itself needs to be set to allow transparent status bar etc... i presume you're working on the x10? If so to set the rom you're bootloader would have to be unlocked to customise a deoxidised rom, then you can have transparent built into themes. Please correct me if I'm wrong, its info i have read and hopefully will help you too
tina333 said:
As far as i know from cooking themes for dell streak, the rom itself needs to be set to allow transparent status bar etc... i presume you're working on the x10? If so to set the rom you're bootloader would have to be unlocked to customise a deoxidised rom, then you can have transparent built into themes. Please correct me if I'm wrong, its info i have read and hopefully will help you too
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Hi.
I'm not trying to make the statusbar transparent, I'm trying to make the statusbar font white, but what worked for me before just isn't working now and I can't figure it out. Any one who checks the files I've uploaded can see they have all been edited accordingly but the font colour just wont change.
The rom I'm trying mod is in beta stage 2, and the reason I'm having to start again is because the services.jar has changed from beta 1, and having changed the only instance of 0x100 in StatusBarIcon.smali, nothing is changing, so think I maybe missing something, but need a theming pro to take a look and point out what that might be. I've followed stericsons guide, I've watched TheFXNs vid, I've read dullys link, none of which are of any help with this issue, because I know I've edited what needs editing, but still stuck with black font in the statusbar.
There's a $10 or £5 donation for anyone who helps resolve this as I'm past the point of frustration now.
Take a look here
http://androidforums.com/droid-all-...notification-clock-pull-down-text-colors.html
Its a really good guide and whilst you've hit a brick wall you may find reading a different way might highlight the error
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also http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=908270
I spent a while looking for a blue theme yesterday and didnt find anything in here, so I moved to other forums and found the beautiful MattedBlues theme. I decided to port it even though it was for cm. It came out pretty nice, but I left the notification bar black since a gradient on the notification bar came out really low quality. I'm willing to update this and encourage you guys to find things to change. I packaged this in metamorph so it would be really simple to install, but if you're new to it, i'll give a short tutorial below. There's also an cwm zip for kb1 and cog now.
SCREENSHOTS:
I only themed the framework-res and twframework-res, and metamorph only changes the included files, so all of your prescious lock screens are safe
Morph for JPY/JS7:
Link
Morph for KB1/Cognition 4.1:
Link
Flashable zip for KB1/Cog:
Link
Flashable zip for Cog with boot and shutdown anims included:
Link
I ALSO made accompanying boot and shutdown animations. It's just a blue version of the ones in serendipity, but I think it adds a nice touch
Screenshot
Boot animation:
Link
Shutdown animation:
Link
Thanks to jabbawalkee for the great theme and MikeyMike for the awesome rom!
Changelog
v2.0 [KB1] (3/8/11)
Made separate morph for KB1, fixes toggle icons and many notification icons
v1.0 (2/26/11)
Released
Tutorials
HOW TO INSTALL THEME:
Install metamorph (I think you need busybox too, so install that if you don't have it)
Download zip file
Move to SD card
open metamorph (press start checks)
press unzip/extract new theme
select zip and press close on window that pops up
press apply all and continue
WHEN IT PROMPTS YOU TO REBOOT, SAY NO. (you can, but then you have to repeat this process)
press pick existing theme and press BlueGB
Press blueGB.xml and then close on window
Apply all, continue, blah blah blah, when it prompts you to reboot the 2nd time say yes.
I think I read in a swype theme thread that you should always apply themes twice with metamorph. I ran into this when I was testing it and had to apply the theme twice to get it to work, so just do it to be safe.
HOW TO INSTALL BOOT ANIMATION:
1) Download the free app "Boot Animation Changer LITE" from the market
2) Plug phone into computer and turn on USB storage
3) Go to bootanims/stock
4) Replace bootanimation.zip with the one in the OP
5) Turn off USB storage
6) Allow su permissions, click on animations, scroll to STOCK, and press "Change to boot animation"
7) Let it do it's thing and restart. You should have the new boot animation!
This looks awesome! Will be using this for a while
Also, why did the title bar look like a bad resolution? How did you uncompress/recompress it?
Be sure to not use any compression at all... just put it in a zip file with no compression, otherwise it will make your images look bad...
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This looks awesome! Will be using this for a while
Also, why did the title bar look like a bad resolution? How did you uncompress/recompress it?
Be sure to not use any compression at all... just put it in a zip file with no compression, otherwise it will make your images look bad...
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EDIT EDIT: Still didn't work
Can someone make a KB1 compatable version?
with no clock !!
Man that's weird, looks bad without compression but with compression it looks a bit better... I'll mess around with this for a while, you can try it (just another morph to put on top) here if you'd like. As for KB1, could you do a nandroid backup and test it? AFAIK (PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG) it should work for most of it, and extra files in the framework shouldn't get it stuck on a bootloop. If you tell me what's not themed, I can try to fix it.
EDIT: Oh, and comparison
WITH COMPRESSION
WITHOUT
Is there a way I can edit this myself to make my serendipity orb unlock match?
Thanks for porting this beautiful theme *tear*
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Is there a way I can edit this myself to make my serendipity orb unlock match?
Thanks for porting this beautiful theme *tear*
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Well, the images would be simple enough to recolour:
http://i.imgur.com/IlPTA.png
But then you have the day of the week coloured... that I don't know about.
Oh and it's red because redrom was easier to dl
EDIT: Almost update? I still need to fix the toggle things.
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running this on uckb1. the toggles are off a little (mixed between old and new tw-framework), and whenever you have five bars of reception, it reverts back to white signal bars (serendipity is based on an i9000 framework, i believe, which only has four signal status bars).
i'd like to see this for uckb1 completely, but it does give me a solid black status bar, for which i'm eternally grateful. thanks much
EDIT: for boot and shutdown animations ... bootanimation.zip goes into /system/media, intact (use root explorer. your quality of life will quadruple after buying this app). shutdown.zip gets extracted; take the folder inside (shutdown) and put in /system/media/video. again, use root explorer.
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Well, the images would be simple enough to recolour:
But then you have the day of the week coloured... that I don't know about.
Oh and it's red because redrom was easier to dl
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Haha already running redrom, but just put yours over it. The red was glaring into my retinas.
Hoping this will work nicely with my new cog 4.1, first time I flashed so I'm trying to customize it and get further away from samsung's stock
Can you guys on kb1 post screenshots of the toggle icons and other things that aren't working? Also, I think I'm almost done with v1.1 with the semi-transparent notification menu and maybe some additional app theming, but since some of you like the black statusbar, i'll leave the original up too. I'd love to get this working on kb1 I'll look into the blue orb screen and do the best I can.
hopefully that's clear enough. wifi, bluetooth, and gps are on, silent and auto-rotation aren't. the notification background is stock.
thanks for the effort - just my two cents, but i'd love a transparent notification drawer background with black status bar.
edit: the battery icon reverts to touchwiz animation while charging.
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hopefully that's clear enough. wifi, bluetooth, and gps are on, silent and auto-rotation aren't. the notification background is stock.
thanks for the effort - just my two cents, but i'd love a transparent notification drawer background with black status bar.
edit: the battery icon reverts to touchwiz animation while charging.
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Could you try this? It should give you the transparent notification menu. As for the toggle icons, I know exactly what's wrong but it may take a little extra time to finish because I'm going to use different icons (without the little bar thing).
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Could you try this? It should give you the transparent notification menu. As for the toggle icons, I know exactly what's wrong but it may take a little extra time to finish because I'm going to use different icons (without the little bar thing).
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This works..except the toggle buttons still have the mismatched toggles
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what he said ^ … also, here's what i was talking about with the signal bars going back to white touchwiz.
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what he said ^ … also, here's what i was talking about with the signal bars going back to white touchwiz.
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Would you be ok if I just made 4 bars show up as 3 and 5 show up as 4? That's the simplest solution I can think of. I'll try to fix the battery thing right now, too.
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Would you be ok if I just made 4 bars show up as 3 and 5 show up as 4? That's the simplest solution I can think of. I'll try to fix the battery thing right now, too.
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i think that's what most themers have been doing, or some variation on this.
Try this?
If you applied the jacked up metamorph I added 1.1/1.1a you will need to SBF to get your **** right, sorry, I warned you. After you get SBF'd back to stock you can re-root and apply 1.1d. No more surprises, PROMISE!
After seeing a lot of requests for a Gingerbread theme I decided that since
MetaMorph seems to dangerously be working why not give it a go and just
compile a large Gingerbread theme for it.
Note of caution: Using MetaMorph can potentially softbrick your phone,
in all my testing I have yet to do so, but just know it is a possibility. I am not
responsible for anything that happens from you using this MetaMorph theme.
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Features:
- 3g, Wifi, Battery, SMS/MMS, Signal icons
- Voicemail icon
- Black notification bar
Planned additions:
- AOSP notification pull-down
- AOSP lockscreen look
- Orange overscrolls
- Standard AOSP notifications
Installation Instructions
1. Ensure you can connect your phone to PC through ADB, just in case.
2. Download and install MetaMorph app from market (free).
3. Download the MetaMorph theme provided below.
4. Extract the folder to '/sdcard/AndroidThemes' using File Manager/Root Explorer/Astro.
5. Open MetaMorph and locate the xml file Gingerbread-Total Pack.xml
6. Apply all.
7. Following the application of the SystemUI mods it will FC, don't worry.
8. Keep tapping close until it begins to update the framework-res.
9. In between closes click Continue for the framework-res update. (if you're not quick like me you can reboot through adb 'adb reboot')
10. Upon reboot you should be good to go.
Download v1.1d Here
Download v 1.0 Here
Changelog:
v 1.1X
- Added Non-Google Server signal icons +1
- Added other missed notification icons
- Removed that MMS icon (obsolete)
Thanks testing out now!!!
Edit: i extracted it to AndroidThemes and when opening it using Metamorph I can't find the .XML. Also, when trying to unzip using the original .zip file in metamorph, it tell me that the theme control file is missing?\
Edit2: NVM found the solution
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Thanks testing out now!!!
Edit: i extracted it to AndroidThemes and when opening it using Metamorph I can't find the .XML. Also, when trying to unzip using the original .zip file in metamorph, it tell me that the theme control file is missing?\
Edit2: NVM found the solution
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Yea I edited step 4....it seemed a little ambiguous at that point I should have
screened it step by step. I'm cloning the CM7 repo right now for the other images I need.
Donating soon!
I'm totally wiped after work today...i'm cloning every repo I need, including the
documentation on what gets compiled where and then i'll update tomorrow in the
AM with v2.
Also going to be adding multicolor themes...(cyanogen, red, white, pink, etc.)
OK, so my WiFI, Battery icon, and black notification bar seem to be going well..
HOWEVER, for my signal bar, when I boot it up it shows the Gingerbread style signal icons, then after approx. 5 seconds it disappears and shows the stock icons.
Could Jewremy's Mods have affected this?
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OK, so my WiFI, Battery icon, and black notification bar seem to be going well..
HOWEVER, for my signal bar, when I boot it up it shows the Gingerbread style signal icons, then after approx. 5 seconds it disappears and shows the stock icons.
Could Jewremy's Mods have affected this?
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Sounds so..
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Just SBF to get rid of his mods, re-activated, re-rooted, and re-applied this theme. No changes
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Just SBF to get rid of his mods, re-activated, re-rooted, and re-applied this theme. No changes
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OK, let's run over this again...
- You SBF'd to get rid of Jewremy's Mods
- Re-rooted
- Re-applied the MetaMorph
And still no success?
Bear in mind, I haven't used Jewremy's mods.
After some looking...it will be easier to mod Jewremy's ModKit...and update this thread with
the modded version, if he'll allow it.
Yeah--Of course I could've just pushed the old framework-res.apk back onto my system, but there was so much edited crap inside the old framework-res.apk that I decided to just SBF.
Yeah, you can see the changed signal icon for like a few seconds when the phone boots up but right after, the icons change back to the stock icons. The same thing is happening with the 3G icon.
I think it will be easier to use Jewremy's ModKit to apply these mods. having the SystemUI.apk constantly force closing and stuff is going to give people a tough time!
It sounds like it has something to do with when the phone syncs with google, it changes to the stock icons. Did you change those also? There are the white ones, and the green.
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Yeah--Of course I could've just pushed the old framework-res.apk back onto my system, but there was so much edited crap inside the old framework-res.apk that I decided to just SBF.
Yeah, you can see the changed signal icon for like a few seconds when the phone boots up but right after, the icons change back to the stock icons. The same thing is happening with the 3G icon.
I think it will be easier to use Jewremy's ModKit to apply these mods. having the SystemUI.apk constantly force closing and stuff is going to give people a tough time!
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Well after visiting the idea a little more thoroughly...i'll feel much better using
metamorphs...i'm looking through Jewremy's stuff trying to figure why they
default back to the stock, especially if the values/images have been
changed/overwritten on the SystemUI.
The changes metamorph makes are not as system intensive as Jewremy so
from a theming perspective not using his mods may be a price to consider
when using metamorphs. Nothing against him or his mods.
I've decompiled SYstemUI.apk and i'm sifting through what I can in it right now.
I left out icons in the metamorph unintentionally, working on releasing the newest
now...to be exact I included icons for 'fully' whenyou ryou are connected to Googles
servers but left off the default ones...been months since I themed anything. New 1.1
zip in 20 minutes.
I've received permission for you to use Jewremy's ModKit for use in your themes.
[18:53] <kshen1> Jewremying
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[18:53] <kshen1> Jewremy: we're wondering if we could use your ModKit to create our own themes
[18:54] <Jewremy> yeah. go for it.
[18:54] <Jewremy> I used uot.dakra.lt and apkmanager to do everything.
So it is safe in a sense to change icons, notification pull down and lock screens? Im asking because I created a thread where people could post what they used and worked and its basically collecting dust, lol.
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You should make a MM to get back to stock, too.
Also, can't wait for notification bar + overscroll + others.
v 1.1 w/ signal icon and other notification icon fixes upped, check OP.
@kshen, the reason you were getting that error was because I left some important icons out
of the folders, it has been corrected now.
Downloading now, will report back
Status bar is fixed, but other stuff is broken. hold on while i upload a video!
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14612246/screencast_1.mp4
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Downloading now, will report back
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Make sure the zip you got was about 300kb, someone downloaded another zip??? and is blowing up my inbox.
V1.1 broke a lot of stuff for me. No FCs, but looooooads of images broken. I'll get some screens up soon.
I've got a video uploaded of the things broken
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14612246/screencast_1.mp4