Hi!
I want to edit the sympad text files in the windows folder. This is so I can get the the smiley "; )" which I miss badly.
Is there any way to do this?
I tried to use Resco to remove the attributes and edit the file, but after a soft reset it's still back as before
*BUMP* and update.
I've manged to edit the sympad* file using Total Commander, but if I try to replace smileys with the one I want, the key for that smileys just gets blank
So, after I replace it with the original smiley, it works fine again.
Then I try to add a smiley, to fill the blank keys in the symbol list, but this won't work either - it stays blank
Any solution to this?
Does it have any to do with the hex values higher up in the list, before the smileys?
Hi Guys,
is it possible to change android (magic) taskbar color/theme for the device without root access?
I don't like the boring white, I want black taskbar with white font.
any suggestion will be appreciated .
thanks
I would like the same my device is rooted though
Draxter said:
I would like the same my device is rooted though
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dont think it is possible if you aren't rooted. If you are rooted open up the update.zip file you are using as your rom using 7-zip, go to where framework drawable folder is. Open status bar and change its colour, drop it back in and resign app. There are instructions how to do this in themes section of Dream.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=473580
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=471586 I use post number 6 the way i do it.
I'm using the Vodafone rom... I don't think I can get my update.zip from that? I rooted my device with haykuro's stuff in this tutorial.
http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=Magic_Rooting
I want to keep my Dutch XT9 so I can't flash anything else but smartphone france or my stock vodafone...
all the drawables should be in the root-me rom. open it and have a look for them.
But if they aren't I will brick my device by flashing a wrong framework...
no you wont. All you do is open it and drop in the .pngs you want, then resign it. they will be there in the rom- if not look at one of the other roms- Rogers, or daldroid will have them.
If it does go in to boot loop reboot into recovery and flash the last working rom you have until you figure out what went wrong. The only thing you are changing is the pngs. you shouldnt go intoa bootloop doing this- i have done a heap of theming for myself for the G1 and each time i got a boot loop it was cos i was playing around with services.jar and xml files. each time i just rebooted into recovery and reflashed previous working rom.
The thing is, I don't know which ROM I have... I have rooted my magic by using the android-dls tutorial with haykuro's stuff. There are still some vodafone relics left. I still have the vodafone shortcut, and i still have support for Dutch XT9.
http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=Magic_Rooting
I haven't made a Nandroid backup and I don't know how to make a backup either so... There is only one alternative, flashing Smartphone France firmware, it has Dutch support. I wouldn't mind trying out that one but that'll be the first time that I flash firmware onto my Magic so I'd like some guidance on MSN with that
Drawer
Im looking for the application drawer button in the res folder that is inside framework... found the status/notification bar and all icons but can't seem to find the app drawer button... i want to change it to a darker grey and make the notification bar black...
the app drawers are in launcher.apk
Easiest/safest way of changing the graphics I have found was to:
1. Connect your phone via USB and make sure you have the drivers installed
2. do adb remount
3. Do a adb pull on /system/framework/framework-res.apk for example
4. Open the apk with something like winrar etc
5. Locate the png files you want to change and extract them
6. make modifications to the files
7. pop back to the apk
8. do an adb push of the file back to the device
I've done this with fairly few apk's such as the launcher.apk and framework-res.apk and never had to resign the file =o)
The advantage is that you are using the file from your phone that you know works =o)) certain apk's don't even need a restart such as the Launcher.apk, I did alot of modding with the app drawer without ever needing to restart the phone.
This is good for changing the images but things like changing the clock color is ALOT harder, it requires you to edit the services.jar file with a hex editor =o(
Hope this helps.
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the app drawers are in launcher.apk
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Ok, i did find the file in the launcher.apk, i edited it and all the other files and now need to resign in linux... was looking for the SignApk.jar in the SDK and didn't find it... also tried JF's testsign.jar and didnt work... can anyone point me in the right direction so i can resign the file using test keys in linux.
Thanks,
If you just changed the png's you shouldn't have to resign it
fxn said:
If you just changed the png's you shouldn't have to resign it
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What about the hour and date font in the status bar... if i change the notification area to black it wont automatically switch to white text... do you know where i can find the parameters to change it?
Some of the text like notification texts etc are held in framework-res.apk xml files in the drawable folder if I remember correctly.
The clock is the difficult one as it is inside services.jar file, its a serious pain in the back side, the dream forum has more info about it but it involves opening up files in hex editor and changing the hex code directly there
I'll be having a look at this and see if I can make step by step guide of this but it is seriously a pain!
Any idea which XML's in framework-re.apk (or other location) hold the various notification font colour(s)?? I can't seem to find it.
I have searched for ever on this.. I'm trying to edit some Presets for MissediT!
What I want to do is add an image here instead of a color for the background...
<Background>
<Color>#6D000000</Color> <------ I want this to be an image from my SDCARD.
<Shadow>
<Enabled>false</Enabled>
<Color>#B5B11E1E</Color>
<Radius>1</Radius>
<X-offset>3</X-offset>
<Y-offset>3</Y-offset>
</Shadow>
</Background>
Is this possible? Or is something like this going to take decompiling an APK?
hot to change app img?
I think you want to change the icon of an app, and I´m not sure if I´m the right person to answer this, but you could try to use apktool or something like that to decompile the apk, search for the icon in the decompiled apk, change it, and recompile it.
PS:
Pictures are normally in folders that have a "drawable" in their name.
Hello everyone!
I would like to share my simple-but useful,script!
What's that script?
This script is taking a colors.xml file which you select , and changes all the colors to the one you need.
How can that script be "useful"?
Sometimes when themers want to find out which color (i.e) affects the color of toolbar of an app,are searching in the colors.xml
Instead of searching all the colors.xml,i created that script which changes all the color values to one color of your choise.
This will make all the colors (i.e.) green.So compiling the theme will make you understand what is affected by colors.xml or styles.xml or or or...
Yes but...malware?
Source code
Also its compiled with AutohotKey.that means ,if u open the .exe as text file,there is all the source code there.
How to use it:
Download the zip and extract it.
Run the .exe
The script will do nothing until you press the 'F2' button.
Select the colors.xml you want.
Type the color you want.
Pressing ok ,will create a new modified xml at your desktop
Profit.
Pressing ESC in the operation will exit the script and will remove the produced folder at desktop
Give me some feedback,if that app is running on your computer because i use x64 windows 7