My custom bootanimation is now complete and ready. Sorry if you want to see it you will have to go to youtube and search android animation as I can't post links.
How about a GIF?
Will do when i get a chance bit busy at the mo.
Changed the loop at the end to a colour mix of droid.
You install this how?
The method I use is with root explorer on the android market as it gives you the freedom to change system files. What I do is download a bootanimation.zip to my sdcard then I open up root explorer and find the bootanimation.zip. Once I've found the zip I copy it and move it to system /media. I paste the zip overriding the old one that's it all is left to reboot there are other ways with emulator and sdk but I find root explorer easyest.
All mods are at the bottom of this post.
Here is a simple way to change system icons on your application drawer. I was looking for a guide to do this but I couldn't find any so I gave it a try and it worked. So I decided to post the method here for like minded people who wanted to change the system icons in their app drawer and not only on the homescreen.
I will show an example of changing the contacts icon. To change the icons of some other app you just have to pull the relevant apk. I know this looks long and tiresome but bear with me and the results will amaze you. After a few times it becomes really easyYou have to be rooted to do this
A couple of things to note
a. You can change icons in framework-res.apk, SystemUI.apk or any other apk this way too.
b. Please note that the icons you replace should be of the same dimensions.
c. The specific icons name inside the drawable_hdpi might change. Sometimes its icon.png. Sometimes its ic_launcher_XYZ. Just use your head and replace the correct png.
d. The files are located either in system/app or data/app depending on whether its a system file or a data file. System files have to be pushed. Data files have to be installed.
Changing Icons works for all ROMS
1. Download android-sdk from here http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
2. Install all libraries.
3. Install jdk from here http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
Make sure you download jdk and not just jre.
4. Download apk manager from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695701
5. extract apk manager inside platform-tools inside android-sdk folder. Should be something like this
C:/Android-sdk/windows/platform-tools/("extract apk manager here")
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6. Open cmd
7. Navigate to the platform-tools folder. (Simple DOS commands)
8. Do "adb pull /system/app/HtcContacts.apk" (-Do this without the quotes. If you want to change the icon for, lets say the camera, then instead of HtcContacts.apk, type HTCCamera.apk. To see all the system files just navigate to system/app on your phone using es file explorer or root explorer or any other file explorer you fancy. You can see all the system apks and you can pull anyone you want)
9. Ok so now the HtcContacts.apk should be in the platform-tools folder. Paste it into the folder "place apk here for modding".
10. Start script.bat (apk manager) from the platform-tools folder.
11. Choose option 22 to select a project
12. Choose the number of the project. In this case it would be 1.
13. Choose one again on the next screen. This will extract the apk to the projects folder.
14. Now get to the folder res/drawable-hdpi/ on your windows explorer.
15. Replace people.png with the icon of your choice. Please remember that your new icon has to be of 72x72 dimension and should have the same name. You can also replace other pngs like dialer and stuff.
(Next step is only for system files)
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16. Select option 3 on the apk manager cmd
17. Now select 8. This is a system apk and so we have to retain the system signature.
18. Enter the full path of the file ( system/app/HtcContacts.apk)
Follow these steps for data files
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19. Select 7.
20. Wait for install.
Here are my mods. Please note that I have not made these icons and tweaks. I have just put them all together in one place. If you want to give any credit then please follow the developers.
These are designed for sense based Roms. Please DO NOT try with any other rom. Just download and push to system/framework/framework-res.apk. Please note : This is for the older sense (sense 2.0) Do not try with newer sense.
To get transparency you have to use this file -- Transparency Hack -- through metamorph. I will make this into a flashable zip once I understand how to do that.
App icons are from Tenuis theme - Images
My framework-res
Screenshot - http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/9167/snap20110125163003.png
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System Icons Zip
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18171691/Mms.apk
Hello,i just use Bettercut.apk available from market .
Marcdu81 said:
Hello,i just use Bettercut.apk available from market .
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Hi I dont use bettercut but does it let you change the system icons in the app drawer. you know the drawer that comes up when you press the menu on the launcher???
Edit: OK i just tried bettercut. Using this you cannot change system icons in the app drawer. You are only changing icons on the homescreen, basically shortcuts. You could do that with launcherpro, desktop visualizer and 10 other apps.
CREDITS
CREDITS
MultiCulti for giving me the idea to get the services.jar for transparency
Icons from MIUI framework
Icons from Gingerbread aosp ROM
sopL87 for his guide
he_stheone64 for his awesome transparency hack
Ps. tell me if I have forgotten to credit anyone and I will add your name here. Thanks to all of the above for inspiring and helping.
Good work
Check this out too:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=10157000
Simple Java app to edit .apk files with a nice GUI
You're Just Awesome THNX man !
Nice guide
Ninjamorph lets you edit and change out images within apk files right on your phone. Its a free app on the market.
Still a very nice guide though!
thanks .. i was just looking to put up something which you could use to edit any apk on your phone .. the thing with ninjamorph is that it wasn't working for me. And plus I prefer to do it this way. Gives me more area.
EDIT: Anyone wants to see an MIUI framework on your sense?? I am thinking about getting the exact MIUI framework over to our sense based ROMs. As you can see in my framework I have already copied some of the elements. I am thinking about getting the power toggles and removing the current apps from the notification pulldown.
hi could u help me to change the battery icon plzzzz
i know about kitchen. any thing else i have some pic of a battery icon but dont know how to make one..... htc desire hd rom runny 3.37
Can't extract file
I tried to put option 22 where project start. Then I enter the project name as 1 and following another option 1 to extract files. However, the CMD just close by itself and I opened the project file and still empty inside. Please help!!
Hi,
I have updated my HTC One to android 4.4, sense 5.5 (latest update from HTC). After the update I see that the emoticons in the Google hangouts app have been changed to HTC emoticons.
I was used to the emoticons in my hangouts app and now they have been changed and I am very disappointed.
Is there a way to get the Google emoticons back? I don't like the ones that HTC provides.
I have attached a screen shot.
If I could also change the emoticons/emojis to Google system-wide I would be more glad.
183.amir said:
Hi,
I have updated my HTC One to android 4.4, sense 5.5 (latest update from HTC). After the update I see that the emoticons in the Google hangouts app have been changed to HTC emoticons.
I was used to the emoticons in my hangouts app and now they have been changed and I am very disappointed.
Is there a way to get the Google emoticons back? I don't like the ones that HTC provides.
I have attached a screen shot.
If I could also change the emoticons/emojis to Google system-wide I would be more glad.
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I'd like to know this as well. I much prefer the Google emoticons in Hangouts.
imminentwill said:
I'd like to know this as well. I much prefer the Google emoticons in Hangouts.
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I think this should either be provided by Google Hangouts app or we need to use a custom framework.
Finally figured it out myself and thought I should share! You need root for this to work.
Get a file browser app that can browse system files. I suggest Root Browser or ES File Explorer.
Navigate to /system/fonts/
While in the fonts folder, you should see a font named "AndroidEmoji-htc.ttf" and a "AndroidEmoji.ttf".
Rename "AndroidEmoji-htc.ttf" to "AndroidEmoji-htc.ttf.nothankyou" or whatever file extension you prefer. Just make sure it's not .ttf or any other font file extension or the system will still read it.
Doing this will make the system fall back to "AndroidEmoji.ttf" which contains the hangous emojis.
Reboot and you will see the results.
Enjoy!
Okay, so you changed the Emoji in your conversation to match your keyboard. What if I wanted to go the other way ’round and skin my keyboard Emoji to match what’s in the conversation?
Musenkishi said:
Finally figured it out myself and thought I should share! You need root for this to work.
Get a file browser app that can browse system files. I suggest Root Browser or ES File Explorer.
Navigate to /system/fonts/
While in the fonts folder, you should see a font named "AndroidEmoji-htc.ttf" and a "AndroidEmoji.ttf".
Rename "AndroidEmoji-htc.ttf" to "AndroidEmoji-htc.ttf.nothankyou" or whatever file extension you prefer. Just make sure it's not .ttf or any other font file extension or the system will still read it.
Doing this will make the system fall back to "AndroidEmoji.ttf" which contains the hangous emojis.
Reboot and you will see the results.
Enjoy!
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do you think there is a way to get the emoticons used in whatsapp for hangouts also?
herwegan said:
do you think there is a way to get the emoticons used in whatsapp for hangouts also?
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Well... I don't know. In my post, I basically just remove the emojis that HTC put in the Android system and let it fall back on the original emojis in KitKat, which is the same as the Hangouts.
If there is an emoji font inside the whatsapp APK, then it might be possible to rename it to "AndroidEmoji-htc.ttf", and put it in /system/fonts/. This way, your phone would think it's loading the HTC emojis, but in reality it would be the whatsapp emojis. Might be possible with any emoji font pack actually.
thank you this worked perfectly!
Musenkishi said:
Finally figured it out myself and thought I should share! You need root for this to work.
Get a file browser app that can browse system files. I suggest Root Browser or ES File Explorer.
Navigate to /system/fonts/
While in the fonts folder, you should see a font named "AndroidEmoji-htc.ttf" and a "AndroidEmoji.ttf".
Rename "AndroidEmoji-htc.ttf" to "AndroidEmoji-htc.ttf.nothankyou" or whatever file extension you prefer. Just make sure it's not .ttf or any other font file extension or the system will still read it.
Doing this will make the system fall back to "AndroidEmoji.ttf" which contains the hangous emojis.
Reboot and you will see the results.
Enjoy!
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is there a way to do this without having root?
Any ideas on making this work without root?
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robgee789 said:
Any ideas on making this work without root?
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk
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I'd love to find a non rooted solution as well. Anyone got any ideas?
IIIMik3 said:
I'd love to find a non rooted solution as well. Anyone got any ideas?
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I also need a non rooted solution for my HTC One M8. This is driving me crazy.
Musenkishi said:
Finally figured it out myself and thought I should share! You need root for this to work.
Get a file browser app that can browse system files. I suggest Root Browser or ES File Explorer.
Navigate to /system/fonts/
While in the fonts folder, you should see a font named "AndroidEmoji-htc.ttf" and a "AndroidEmoji.ttf".
Rename "AndroidEmoji-htc.ttf" to "AndroidEmoji-htc.ttf.nothankyou" or whatever file extension you prefer. Just make sure it's not .ttf or any other font file extension or the system will still read it.
Doing this will make the system fall back to "AndroidEmoji.ttf" which contains the hangous emojis.
Reboot and you will see the results.
Enjoy!
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Obviously I have not rooted yet. What type of root does this require to have permissions to do this? Thanks in advance.
Musenkishi said:
Finally figured it out myself and thought I should share! You need root for this to work.
Get a file browser app that can browse system files. I suggest Root Browser or ES File Explorer.
Navigate to /system/fonts/
While in the fonts folder, you should see a font named "AndroidEmoji-htc.ttf" and a "AndroidEmoji.ttf".
Rename "AndroidEmoji-htc.ttf" to "AndroidEmoji-htc.ttf.nothankyou" or whatever file extension you prefer. Just make sure it's not .ttf or any other font file extension or the system will still read it.
Doing this will make the system fall back to "AndroidEmoji.ttf" which contains the hangous emojis.
Reboot and you will see the results.
Enjoy!
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I have a rooted M7, I've granted ES File Explorer SuperUser, and I get "task failed" when i try to rename it, and "Read only file system" when I try to delete it. Nothing is working
EDIT: Using Root Explorer instead of ES File Explorer worked. Not sure why, but I'm glad I know Root Explorer will work for me.
JMB2772 said:
I have a rooted M7, I've granted ES File Explorer SuperUser, and I get "task failed" when i try to rename it, and "Read only file system" when I try to delete it. Nothing is working
EDIT: Using Root Explorer instead of ES File Explorer worked. Not sure why, but I'm glad I know Root Explorer will work for me.
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still hoping for a non-root solution to this. :fingers-crossed:
Me too mate but I don't think it's gonna happen
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Just run the weaksauce root for your HTC One M8 guys and you'll have no problems following the OP's instructions- literally takes 1 minute to root, 30 seconds to change the emoticons and you are good to go!
I rooted on my first day picking up the M8 and it's been awesome since
JMB2772 said:
I have a rooted M7, I've granted ES File Explorer SuperUser, and I get "task failed" when i try to rename it, and "Read only file system" when I try to delete it. Nothing is working
EDIT: Using Root Explorer instead of ES File Explorer worked. Not sure why, but I'm glad I know Root Explorer will work for me.
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Just an FYI for anyone else who gets the "read only file system error" in ES File Explorer. There are actually two steps required to configure ES to be able to access and modify files on the system partition.
Step one, you've done, is grant ES superuser access. But all this does is give ES read-only access to the protected system partition. In order to actually make changes to any files on system, you also need to enable read-write access to system.
Step two, In the same place you enable superuser access in ES, you can tap the option to open up another menu, choose Mount R/W, and then select /system.
Now you will be able to actually modify files on the system partition. This is essentially what root explorer does in the background, it just starts up with system mounted as readwrite. But since ES can be used by users without root, it defaults to read-only for system, and must be specifically configured for read-write.
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IIIMik3 said:
still hoping for a non-root solution to this. :fingers-crossed:
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Well, there's no way for a non-root device to modify files on the system partition. This is what root gives you, access to modify /system. So without root, there's just no way to accomplish this modification. If the emoji files were stored on /data, then you'd be able to make some changes. But they're stored on /system, which the user on a non-root device is blocked from accessing.
A little background on the "why" this is:
If the user had full read-write to /system by default on a stock device, then any app in the Play Store or sideloaded could compromise your security and make unauthorized changes to your device. This is why /system is protected. By rooting your device, you are removing this protection. You the user are essentially taking on the responsibility to ensure that anything you install from that point forward is safe and trusted. If you install something and grant it root access, it then has access to every file on your device. Because of the very real security dangers involved with rooting, no device will ever come rooted from the factory, and no Play Store app will be able to access /system without being rooted.
trjlive said:
Just an FYI for anyone else who gets the "read only file system error" in ES File Explorer. There are actually two steps required to configure ES to be able to access and modify files on the system partition.
Step one, you've done, is grant ES superuser access. But all this does is give ES read-only access to the protected system partition. In order to actually make changes to any files on system, you also need to enable read-write access to system.
Step two, In the same place you enable superuser access in ES, you can tap the option to open up another menu, choose Mount R/W, and then select /system.
Now you will be able to actually modify files on the system partition. This is essentially what root explorer does in the background, it just starts up with system mounted as readwrite. But since ES can be used by users without root, it defaults to read-only for system, and must be specifically configured for read-write.
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Well, there's no way for a non-root device to modify files on the system partition. This is what root gives you, access to modify /system. So without root, there's just no way to accomplish this modification. If the emoji files were stored on /data, then you'd be able to make some changes. But they're stored on /system, which the user on a non-root device is blocked from accessing.
A little background on the "why" this is:
If the user had full read-write to /system by default on a stock device, then any app in the Play Store or sideloaded could compromise your security and make unauthorized changes to your device. This is why /system is protected. By rooting your device, you are removing this protection. You the user are essentially taking on the responsibility to ensure that anything you install from that point forward is safe and trusted. If you install something and grant it root access, it then has access to every file on your device. Because of the very real security dangers involved with rooting, no device will ever come rooted from the factory, and no Play Store app will be able to access /system without being rooted.
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Ah, thanks for this! I'm glad I was able to get it to work with root explorer before this, but I'm glad I know how ES works now.
Hello everyone
I just want to get feedback on something... I use Go SMS Pro, but people using hangouts that I speak with, because I use the emoji provided by the app (iPhone emoji), they don't get most of them, which is very annoying... has anyone faced this? Is this happening just because of the emojis not being integrated? (If I press the button for emojis on the app, I get iPhone' s emojis, but not if i use the SwiftKey shortcut...)
Btw, I tried sending about 50 emoji. Hangouts got 25... :S
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hi again
I have small problem that I find quite annoying
Xperia SP on android 4.3 (....1.207 rom)
device is rooted with towelroot + SuperSU,
no matter which file manager with root capability I use and go into SYSTEM folder
and either create new folder and delete it, or copy something from SD to system Audio folder
things get broken...
Folder cannot be deleted even if its newly created, and has nothing init
nothing cannot be copied in Audio folder, as everything gets erased by ... system ?
and my annoyance goes to, if its rooted OS, and I as user have "full access"
why are these things happening ?
is there something I need to learn of how android deals with stuff specially ?
As far as i can remember, i haven't faced this issue in my past (was ages since i last used stock ROM). But i can safely say it might be related to your actual file manager. Can you list me the file managers you used?
I would also recommend trying to use Solid Explorer Classic for the sake of testing, and also Fx File manager.
Basically, when you want to do a change in the system directory, the system partition must be remounted as read-write because the folder resides on a different partition. Android by default mounts system partition as read-only on boot. A file manager is responsible to remount the system partition to read-write before performing an operation on the system partition, and i believe this is where the problem occurs - if the files aren't being copied.
If you can copy the folders but unable to delete, this is most likely a permission issue, and the file manager was probably isn't properly using its root rights.
Please respond with your test with Fx or Solid Explorer classic. You may also try Solid Explorer 2.0 if you wish. NOTE: Please enable Full Logging in SuperSU settings. I'd like to see what is going on (you can too).
Also it is worth to know that although root gives you ultimate rights to modify or alter the OS, there are always technical problems which are caused by various reasons. Plus, there are even barriers of which root power can't even do. For an ultra simple comparison, you can't use root to somewhat modify an app's source code live. But of course, root gives much more freedom to do things compared to no root.
ah yes, you were right, it did depend on file manager after all
tho for unknown reasons 5 of 6 all needed supersu acceess and had root capability, but nothing to operate
I finally found (blue) root explorer, and this one can do it all, sorry for opening this thread
I jumped bit late with whole android thing
I know I'm probably in wrong section but Verizon has nothing their so I'd really really appreciate if you could help me out.
Ok I'm not rooted on galaxy note 5 Verizon but I'm trying to change font and I downloaded fonts but every time I go to apply the new font in getting this error message could someone please help me out on what to do this is with any fonts I download
Maybe theirs a certain app that only works on Verizon note 5 could you please help me out with the name is it cause I've tried several font apps
[email protected] said:
I know I'm probably in wrong section but Verizon has nothing their so I'd really really appreciate if you could help me out.
Ok I'm not rooted on galaxy note 5 Verizon but I'm trying to change font and I downloaded fonts but every time I go to apply the new font in getting this error message could someone please help me out on what to do this is with any fonts I download
Maybe theirs a certain app that only works on Verizon note 5 could you please help me out with the name is it cause I've tried several font apps
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1. get a file explorer with root
2. download this font pack here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...ont-pack-966-fonts-one-apk-s6-s6edge-t3154336 (or this, link from same thread: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24407100847292972)
3. extract it, navigate to SamsungSans folder and copy it
4. copy the folder + font apk file to your sd card or usb otg
5. open up root explorer, give it root permission, make sure it is r/w and not r/o, and then navigate to /system/app/ (make sure again its r/w and not r/o)
6. copy SamsungSans there
7. change file permissions, SamsungSans folder = rwxrwxr-x, but the APK file change it to rw-r-r
8. reboot
9. you should be able to use any font available as you wish now
EDIT: SORRY just realized you said you're NOT rooted. my apologies, but i'll leave the guide there for anyone who wants to change fonts but dont know how to (on rooted devices)
for your case, due to samsung needing to have some sort of digital signature in order to use 3rd party fonts, the only way for you is to buy them on the store.