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[TUT] Build Metamorph themes on your phone!!

Originally posted in Vibrant section... Sorry if this is old news...
Go to market
Download mm, ninjamorph, silver edit, and astro.. While here pick up a random icon pack... (your first morph)
Open silver edit..pick new xml.. Here is a template. Replace the dashes - with less than/greater than < .. They won't show on xda
-?xml version="1.0"?-
-themename-Theme_Name-/themename-
-themeversion-1.x-/themeversion
-screenshot--/screenshot-
-author-that's you-/author-
-authorweblink--/authorweblink-
-phone-Samsung Vibrant-/phone
-rom-Stock-/rom-
-themedescription-whatever changes-/themedescription-
-item-your app.apk-/item-
-path-/system/app/-/path-
-description-changes the...-/description-
-item-framework-res.apk-/item-
-path-/system/framework/-/path-
-description-Morphs the ...-/description-
Open ninja morph, choose the apk you want to modify.. The images you want to change are in res folder in the drawable dir.. choose the icon and replace it with one out of the icon pack..
Open astro.. Go to android themes.. Make new directory, Theme_Name.. Open the workspace folder..this is where the changed apk is... Copy res folder.. Paste it inside Theme_Name.. Delete everything but drawable... Open the silver edit folder in astro and copy Theme_Name.xml and paste it with your new res folder... You just made a morph on your phone...
Open meta morph..start checks and chose existing... Click Theme_Name and Theme_Name.xml, apply all...
Your original images from your apk are in backup inside android themes...
Thanks stericson for 2 great apps
My phone has been flashed more than Girls Gone Wild..

nice tutto, as simply as look

This is awesome! Will be sending many folks this way. Thanks!

This is confirmed working.. I have made 3 morphs this method and even uploaded them with dropbox from my phone...
My comp up and died on me so I needed a way to keep me busy
...speaking of, I have a talent show to practice for...
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I did everything by the guide in the first post but when I try to install the theme in metamorph I get the error The theme you selected is invalid because the theme control file could be missing, or is not correctly written.
Any help would be much appreciated.

The thread says ninjamorph not matamorph I think that may be the prob
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No I've done the nijamorph part then I go into metamorph for the last part and I get that error.

My fault bro sorry my dumb ass missed that mayb that why I can't get it to work lol
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Can tell the majority of people here are men, I'm a girl
Managed to do it by using just nijamorph, took a while though.
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This is sick man! Is there a way I can possibly extract .png's from a cm7 theme and morph them over to another theme?
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[Q] Question about statusbar?

I am attempting to change the look of the statusbar at the top if at all possible. I am running ComRom 1.3 and would like to change the statusbar as the green just doesn't work for me. Can anyone help me?

You could always use 7zip to get into the file and replace all the .pngs that you want. But beware, there are a LOT of files that would need to be replaced. The battery icon alone is over 100 files. Signal bars is around 8, etc.
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Statusbar_background.9, just change the color of it using photoshop or whatever

I was wondering if I could get the all file or files and use root explorer to obtain the desired status bar.
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TedLWJR said:
I was wondering if I could get the all file or files and use root explorer to obtain the desired status bar.
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No.
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I've tried to change the status bar in the theme that I'm running to transparent using 7-zip and gimp, I can change it but when I reload my theme in recovery and reboot my phone, the signal bars have an X over theme and I can't make any calls. I'm not extracting the .png files just editing theme and saving the .png9 files with draw 9 patch, but still cant get it to work. Any thoughts?

nitroglycerine33 said:
No.
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You could use ninjamorph to decompile the framework-res and TWFramework-res.
Ninjamorph will decompile and recompile an .apk without the need to resign it. After ninjamorph decompiles the .apk use root explorer to copy the files you want to use, make sure they are named correctly. Now navigate to androthemes/workspace folder that ninjamorph created for you and now holds your decompiled .apk's and push the files to framework-res/res/drawable_hdpi or drawable-hdpi-v4 it will overwrite the exsisting files. Now go back to ninjamorph and select finish. It will recompile the .apk and ask you if you want to replace it. Say yes, then say yes to zipalign.apk and finally select no for clean-up.
Your phone will go black for about 10sec then reboot.. JUST WAIT it will reboot. If all went well your statusbar will be changed. MAKE A NANDROID BACKUP 1st. Also you can go to youtube and watch a video on ninjamorph. Its a great app. If you need help just PM me....
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adude247 said:
I've tried to change the status bar in the theme that I'm running to transparent using 7-zip and gimp, I can change it but when I reload my theme in recovery and reboot my phone, the signal bars have an X over theme and I can't make any calls. I'm not extracting the .png files just editing theme and saving the .png9 files with draw 9 patch, but still cant get it to work. Any thoughts?
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If you already have the transparent images. Ninjamorph will work for you too. I first used ninjamorph to swap out my battery.png's it worked flawlessly. Go to youtube and search ninjamorph. Watch a couple videos. ninjamorph is free in the market.
Also you need to have transparency enabled. Simply swapping a solid image for a transparent one wont work......
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Thank you for your help on this matter. I will start working on it immediately, again, Thanks

I've gotten the status bar transparent, the only thing that I can't get is there is a thin black line on the bottom of my status bar, I've changed everything that I could think of but still cant get it to go away, I'm combining two themes now to see if that will work.

WTF?

If you're not interested in the story.. skip to the last paragraph in red.. like this one.. obviously.
I mean seriously.. Am i the only one with this stupid problem.. I restart the phone after somehow the system crashes..
and find the phone with no launcher.. yah.. actually there's no launcher.. and a continuous bootanimation?
WTF??
Actually.. after i turn the phone On.. the so called Bootanimation keeps playing and playing..
and i can still feel the Unlock slider thing.. that it's there..
Well, the phone is obviously functioning Normally .. but with the bootanimation on.. and on.. and on...... and on.
What i do is.. I miss call my self.. the screen shows that some1 is calling..
after i disconnect or do whatever.. the screens lights up.. and comes back to life.. with NO LAUNCHER.
only whatever i used.. which shows in Recent apps.. If i just could get the damn files explorer up!
Well, now i'm wondering.. is there anyway.. ANYWAY..
i can install a Launcher.. without having to do that through the phone????
or somehow open the files explorer?

If you have no launcher, you should flash one via recovery. Find an update zip with an app (such as a modded music app) and replace that apk with a launcher apk.
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Chris95X8 said:
If you have no launcher, you should flash one via recovery. Find an update zip with an app (such as a modded music app) and replace that apk with a launcher apk.
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Thanks Chris.. But can you provide me with such update.zip.. Please?
I'm so sorry man.

I would do it for you but I'm from the phone right now.
Just get my zip with the xperia fonts. Delete the "fonts" folder which is inside the "system" folder.
Now, create a folder on your desktop and name it "app", lower case! Put the apk of the launcher you want there.
Next, drag that folder into the "system" folder of my zip.
So now it's zip/system/app/thelauncher.apk
Flash that and you should have a launcher now.
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Chris95X8 said:
I would do it for you but I'm from the phone right now.
Just get my zip with the xperia fonts. Delete the "fonts" folder which is inside the "system" folder.
Now, create a folder on your desktop and name it "app", lower case! Put the apk of the launcher you want there.
Next, drag that folder into the "system" folder of my zip.
So now it's zip/system/app/thelauncher.apk
Flash that and you should have a launcher now.
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I actually did that.. Thanks man..
anyway.. i sent you a private msg.. you'd want to read..
P.S .. what you told me to do.. worked..
i would have pressed the thanks button if i found it.

Transparent Notification Tray in Zeus.

I was wondering how I could make the notifications tray transparent in the Zeus rom. I dont want to change anything else in the rom. Is there a file I could modify, or a flashable zip I could flash?
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wagstuff13 said:
I was wondering how I could make the notifications tray transparent in the Zeus rom. I dont want to change anything else in the rom. Is there a file I could modify, or a flashable zip I could flash?
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Google
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go to uot..dakra.lt/kitchen/
then go to "file upload tab" upload the framework.res.apk, systemui.apk and do the rest
then go to the "status bar" tab and click use this mod
now check the transparency in status bar
finally go to summary and wait to collect your work
flash it via cwm

theaks30 said:
go to uot..dakra.lt/kitchen/
then go to "file upload tab" upload the framework.res.apk, systemui.apk and do the rest
then go to the "status bar" tab and click use this mod
now check the transparency in status bar
finally go to summary and wait to collect your work
flash it via cwm
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Thanks. I knew you could do it this way but i wondered if there was a faster way.
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you can do it by yourself.
For first start you can read this tutorial
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1225432
For make notification area background to transparent, the file that you need to modify is status_bar_background.png in SystemUI.apk\res\drawable-hdpi
(Open SystemUI.apk using winrar)
You can modify that status_bar_background.png to transparent using image editor (photoshop, etc) or use other png file that already transparent. For example, you can take status_bar_background.png from LG UI 3 Theme, drag and drop it to your SystemUI.apk like in Huexxx tutorial, then push it to /system/app

t0g3 said:
you can do it by yourself.
For first start you can read this tutorial
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1225432
For make notification area background to transparent, the file that you need to modify is status_bar_background.png in SystemUI.apk\res\drawable-hdpi
(Open SystemUI.apk using winrar)
You can modify that status_bar_background.png to transparent using image editor (photoshop, etc) or use other png file that already transparent. For example, you can take status_bar_background.png from LG UI 3 Theme, drag and drop it to your SystemUI.apk like in Huexxx tutorial, then push it to /system/app
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I copied my SystemUI.apk to the root of my sd using Root Explorer. I then connected to my pc. Then I replaced the status_bar_background.png with the one in the SystemUI.apk from the LG UI 3 theme. I then moved the SystemUI.apk back to my /system/app/ folder an rebooted. All that did was make my whole status bar dissapear and unusable. Where did I go wrong?
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Maybe you need to change permission
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[Q] Change recent app to original button

I installed the Volume key long press media control from einstein.frat and noticed that i cannot view my recent app. Someone mentioned a solution which is, Go to /system/usr/keylayouts and find this file synaptics-rmi-touchscreen.kl .Open it in text editor and file this line key 249 MENU . Change MENU to APP_SWITCH .Then save and reboot.
However when i tried to save the changes to the text file it says:
'Can't write file:/system/usr/keylayout/synaptics-rmi-touchscreen.kl open failed:EACCES (Permission denied)'.
The permission for the text file is rw-r--r--. Im running the Nameless ROM v7.2 Build 5.

On xplore or es file go to settings then mount as root, then you could modify files.
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Recent apps is long press home key on nameless, if you want to change it, use nikhil's AROMA Customiser. hope I helped!
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I like the change in Nameless because I used to accidentally touch the recent app from time to time. Now I only load it when I really need it.

einstein.frat said:
On xplore or es file go to settings then mount as root, then you could modify files.
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Thanks it worked. It was so obvious should have though of that

uchihasparky said:
Recent apps is long press home key on nameless, if you want to change it, use nikhil's AROMA Customiser. hope I helped!
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by default its long press home key, figured that out when i was messing around with the buttons. But in my case when i installed the mod the recent apps button doesn't come back