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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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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?
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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.
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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hi guys today i'm here to show you the easyest way to theme your apk without using a pc.
I'm doing this because i don't have my pc now and i'm a little bit bored xD
prerequisites:
-rooted device
-root explorer
-zipsigner (free on play store)
ok LET'S GO!!
1) go to the desired apk and rename it from "apkname.apk" to "apkname.apk.zip" using root explorer (apkname is the name of your application e.g. whatsapp.apk->whatsapp.apk.zip)
2) extract zip using root explorer and you will get a folder with the extracted files inside.
3) go to the extracted folder and change the pics you want
4) be sure to rename the pics with the original name (if i want to change an apk's image called app_logo.png i will have to pick an image and copy it to the extracted folder in res/drawable folder,once here i have to paste the image and rename it into app_logo.png)
5) once you finished replacing the images go back until you see a folder called meta-inf,res,lib,assets etc etc... and press menu button,select all the items and zip all the files,rename the zip into apkname.apk
6) navigate to sdcard/speedsoftware/zip and you will see your zipped file,now rename it from apkname.apk.zip to apkname.apk
7)try to install your modded apk, if it doesn't install open zipsigner and as input file select your modded apk,as output file re-select your modded apk (rename it into signedapkname.apk if you want) then tap on the box to the bottom called "sign the file"
8) once signed install your modded apk using any file manager
ENJOY!
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hope in theme section there will be a lot of modded apks with new ui
i sucess . but i try to edit resource.arc and zip and rename to apk and then im install but pharsing eror in apk
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bayu_104 said:
i sucess . but i try to edit resource.arc and zip and rename to apk and then im install but pharsing eror in apk
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You mean "resources.arsc" ...
This file contains pre-compiled resources, such as binary XML(values, layouts and dimens... etc) for example,
and to edit this file you must decompile the apk using apktool.jar via PC only (can't be dicompiled/compiled via phone environment)
Regards
R: [TUT]mod apk without pc
this tut is only for theming not development or heavy modding (xml files)
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Can I somehow change the color of the themes in xperia u by changing the RGB value somehow.... If its possible then it would be of a gr8 help
Thnks a ton bro
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R: [TUT]mod apk without pc
if the theme is an application just find it and change what you want
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$$sweet devil$$ said:
Can I somehow change the color of the themes in xperia u by changing the RGB value somehow.... If its possible then it would be of a gr8 help
Thnks a ton bro
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MAD_psycho_Zz said:
if the theme is an application just find it and change what you want
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nope, that way you can only replace png's, to edit rgb values (stored in colors.xml) you still have to decompile it with apktool...
yackovsky said:
nope, that way you can only replace png's, to edit rgb values (stored in colors.xml) you still have to decompile it with apktool...
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Can u please post the link to the procedure via apktool as m new to this and I seriously want some authentic colors on my Xperia U
Thnxx a ton
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$$sweet devil$$ said:
Can u please post the link to the procedure via apktool as m new to this and I seriously want some authentic colors on my Xperia U
Thnxx a ton
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google mate, all i can say
R: [TUT]mod apk without pc
download multiapktool
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ok thanks man
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MAD_psycho_Zz said:
hi guys today i'm here to show you the easyest way to theme your apk without using a pc.
I'm doing this because i don't have my pc now and i'm a little bit bored xD
prerequisites:
-rooted device
-root explorer
-zipsigner (free on play store)
ok LET'S GO!!
1) go to the desired apk and rename it from "apkname.apk" to "apkname.apk.zip" using root explorer (apkname is the name of your application e.g. whatsapp.apk->whatsapp.apk.zip)
2) extract zip using root explorer and you will get a folder with the extracted files inside.
3) go to the extracted folder and change the pics you want
4) be sure to rename the pics with the original name (if i want to change an apk's image called app_logo.png i will have to pick an image and copy it to the extracted folder in res/drawable folder,once here i have to paste the image and rename it into app_logo.png)
5) once you finished replacing the images go back until you see a folder called meta-inf,res,lib,assets etc etc... and press menu button,select all the items and zip all the files,rename the zip into apkname.apk
6) navigate to sdcard/speedsoftware/zip and you will see your zipped file,now rename it from apkname.apk.zip to apkname.apk
7)try to install your modded apk, if it doesn't install open zipsigner and as input file select your modded apk,as output file re-select your modded apk (rename it into signedapkname.apk if you want) then tap on the box to the bottom called "sign the file"
8) once signed install your modded apk using any file manager
ENJOY!
press thanks if i helped you
hope in theme section there will be a lot of modded apks with new ui
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can i change the application name and the some of the apps text with the help of this application???
Thats use less u must decompile to Edit xml (name)
But what about the text which is in the app and i want to edit
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sir i tried but not installing modded apk sir i tried with zipsigner but also not installing help me please
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I had modded my apk but when i try to install it cant be installed "Application Not Installed"
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Veey good method!!!;
thnx a lot mahn.....good method but..........after signing and when I try to install it still shows app not installed
Plz help me out.........
O cool
Can I do this to change the name so I have both the older version and the newer at the same time?
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Just wanted to share.
This SystemUI.apk has the singal icons replaced with the iOS7 styled icons (dots). Just replace your SystemUI.apk with the attached one and set permission using 'Root Explorer' or equivalent.
**** IMPORTANT *****
You can not just replace the apk or you will get FC. The best way to do it is to copy the apk to a system folder other than the actual location of the file. For example if the apk to be replaces is in /System/app, then copy the apk first to /system/priv-app, set the correct permissions there and then move to system/app and vice-verse. (the same applies to the odex file)
reboot the device after moving the files.
View attachment SystemUI.zip
Made a flashable for you. Here ya go buddy.
Joe0113 said:
Made a flashable for you. Here ya go buddy.
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I tried this and nothing changed.
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Nothing changed
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how would i go about changing the data icon to 3G, H,H+,LTE on the S5 on my S4 i changed some settings in the buildprop and it worked, tried the same in my S5 and nadda.