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Put your current status bar directly into aosp Froyo

Can I move the status bar drawables directly into the roms framework?
Replace the images like when mixing themes?
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I'm going to make a copy and try it. Will post results.
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Are you going to charge folks to do it for them, if we tell you?

Nah no more conning lol... I just did it I'm going to flash and see if it works now
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If it does then I'll just put the instructions I did in here
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Works
Works flawlessly man this is smokin fast ... Faster than my n1 with froyo so i'm happy... and the only problem is the text is not white. how to get the text white? is this rom not deodexed so u can change text color?
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I just went into the theme that i wanted to put into my froyo rom, navigate to framework > res > drawable-hdpi > dump that whole directory into your roms framework > res > drawable-hdpi
Then, save the new archive, put it back on your SD card n flash. Enjoy!
For now, if we cant get the white text working, you can have the rest of your theme now(in case your like me and cant stand how vanilla aosp looks)... Enjoy!

are you on JT's aosp?

yeah. i'm trying to figure out how to get the text white now
Edit: don't know if rom is deodexed, but if not i'm going to have to deodex it before i can get the text white. someone who knows if it is or not plz let me know so i know what to do next.

akaine2001 said:
Works flawlessly man this is smokin fast ... Faster than my n1 with froyo so i'm happy... and the only problem is the text is not white. how to get the text white? is this rom not deodexed so u can change text color?
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I just went into the theme that i wanted to put into my froyo rom, navigate to framework > res > drawable-hdpi > dump that whole directory into your roms framework > res > drawable-hdpi
Then, save the new archive, put it back on your SD card n flash. Enjoy!
For now, if we cant get the white text working, you can have the rest of your theme now(in case your like me and cant stand how vanilla aosp looks)... Enjoy!
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Not all the image.names.are.going to.be the.same between aosp and touchwiz....in fact 1/4 or more are.different and you have to recombine frameworks
Edit: don't know if rom is deodexed, but if not i'm going to have to deodex it before i can get the text white. someone who knows if it is or not plz let me know so i know what to do next.[/QUOTE]
Jt always deodexes his roms...,changing text color is an xml edit and requires decompiling the.framework making the proper.edits and recompiling

nitsuj17 LOL tell him

Can I do it? Do I need to get smali do'it the xml edits. can't take the vanilla look anymore. And I'm NOT going back to eclair since the three things I don't use are broken only
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I did what the instructions say and the only problem is the black text and I want to change font. How should we go about this next (since someone is probably going to try it when I get it right ando post my example screen.
Transparent as this thread oid supposed to be why can't you help nitsu u know noone going to help me but if someone else started this they would.
So what next is recompiling after the color edits correct? How to do this?
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You'd have more success just grabbing a 2.2 framework from the nexus or whatever phone with aosp froyo then using that framework.
My memory is failing me but the color of text is controlled by either services.jar or framework.jar.

akaine2001 said:
I did what the instructions say and the only problem is the black text and I want to change font. How should we go about this next (since someone is probably going to try it when I get it right ando post my example screen.
Transparent as this thread oid supposed to be why can't you help nitsu u know noone going to help me but if someone else started this they would.
So what next is recompiling after the color edits correct? How to do this?
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you have to decompile the framework...edit the xml files....recompile correctly either with apktool or apkmanager
you have to backsmali the service.jar...make your smali edits....then smali to compile it all in a terminal

Then you have white text.
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akaine2001 said:
Then you have white text.
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Transparent notification and black market themes

I am running cognition 4.2 with eXistz beta 7 kernel and using GTG 5 icons dock TWZ launcher. I have applied gingerbread theme that I obtained from this forum. Now, I am interested in making the notification pull down into a transparent one also would like to have a black market theme. There are plenty available for different modems do we have anything like that for KB1?
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Anyone anyone at all? Please let me know. I want to keep my current gingerbread theme but change the notification to transparent one. Also, would like to change the stock look of the android from green and black on white to black and white and black. Thanks
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antonyvijai said:
Anyone anyone at all? Please let me know. I want to keep my current gingerbread theme but change the notification to transparent one. Also, would like to change the stock look of the android from green and black on white to black and white and black. Thanks
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The voice crying out loud
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You need to edit the alpha channel of the status_bar_background.png or status_bar_background.9.png located in the system/framework/twframework-res.apk
You can either decompile the apk or use a zip program like 7zip or winrar to look inside the apk. The status_bar_background image is located in the res/drawable-hdpi or res/drawable-hdpi-v4 folder in the apk.
The alpha channel is the transparent channel... if you don't know how to edit an alpha channel, you'll have to do a search on google or something to learn how to do that with a graphics editing program like GIMP or Photoshop.
Before you mess with this stuff, make a nandroid backup or a flashable zip with your current unmodified twframework-res.apk so if you mess up and the phone boot loops you can still restore your phone to the state it was before you modified it.

mod777 said:
You need to edit the alpha channel of the status_bar_background.png or status_bar_background.9.png located in the system/framework/twframework-res.apk
You can either decompile the apk or use a zip program like 7zip or winrar to look inside the apk. The status_bar_background image is located in the res/drawable-hdpi or res/drawable-hdpi-v4 folder in the apk.
The alpha channel is the transparent channel... if you don't know how to edit an alpha channel, you'll have to do a search on google or something to learn how to do that with a graphics editing program like GIMP or Photoshop.
Before you mess with this stuff, make a nandroid backup or a flashable zip with your current unmodified twframework-res.apk so if you mess up and the phone boot loops you can still restore your phone to the state it was before you modified it.
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Thanks a lot! That's too complicated for my level. But thanks I learnt a lot from your message
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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?

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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.

Packaging custom Miui icons?

Anyone know how to package miui icons for use with theme manager. I've done a couple of different options but nothing seems to catch. I've loaded the zip to the SD card, that didn't work. I've also changed the extension to mtz and that didn't work. Etc....anyone got any advice what or how to go about it. Thanks in advance
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+1 I would like to know how to do this as well.

Yeah I found some real cool icons on deviant art but can't get the ron to recognize them
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Yeah, I have a folder of Edius icons (over 500) that are properly named according to app, but I can't figure out how to put it into a mtz to use.
Swyped from my MIUI'D Fascinate.

The easiest way would be to find an icon pack for miui and just delete the icons out of it and paste yours in. Use 7-zip and you shouldn't even need to extract or re-zip anything. When you put it back in to theme manager just keep in mind that the name will be the same as whatever icon pack you used.

That's what I was thinking about doing
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I packaged my own fonts to use with Miui with a custom .xml file. I just basially just replicated one from a font package I already had downloaded and that seemed to work. However I copied the setup from an icon package .xml file and that won't work at all. I'm not really sure what to do about that, and noone on here seems to be very helpful. Maybe I posted this in the wrong forum.

Changing status bar to classic version?

So I want to change my statusbar to the classic style. (The white version from 2.2 and back) So I was wondering if there is a way to do this. I have a rooted samsung exhibit 2 4g running Rebel Rom 2.1. Any help appreciated

Ok.

yes there is. first grab the statusbar.apk from somewhere (anywhere). then replace the current statusbar.apk with the new one. reboot after. note that it may not work depending on screen size. you may status-brick your phone. (if you know what i mean)
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I'm a little new to this. So where in root explorer would that apk be? And where would I find this apk and would it automatically change to the classic version after I replace the old one?
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goto /system/apps (different on nearly every phone) and then replace. the status bar will be missing at first so do a reboot. if you cant find the statusbar.apk file then there is an explorer out there (root) that allows you to search for it. im not sure if root ex has it but try anyway. remember to find one designed for your device. (or one which screen size matches) or you could status-brick your phone. as always something could go wrong if you play about with it so i take no responsibility and assure you if you follow all instructions...both instructions (XD) correctly then you should have what you want.
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Ok got that so now my only question is where would I find the classic status bar apk and this guide on xda on how to do it
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brokenAndroid93 said:
Ok got that so now my only question is where would I find the classic status bar apk and this guide on xda on how to do it
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i dont know. try download a rom. extract it and find statusbar.apk (rom must be for you phone) try find a rom with that version of android
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lol @ statusbar.apk
You want to look in framework folders for the pngs for the status bar

Adamsville MITM said:
lol @ statusbar.apk
You want to look in framework folders for the pngs for the status bar
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More likely in systemui.apk, located in /system/app...

Well there aren't any roms with that version for my phone. So what would be my next option?
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There's a Retro Android theme for CM7 somewhere. That'll have all the icons to make then hopefully you/someone can help create the theme.
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Thank you

I have that apk. So what your saying is that I need to find someone who can use this apk to make a status bar apk out of it? Could I replace the current status bar apk with the Retro Droid apk?
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Yes. Just find the right file.
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But since its just a theme wouldn't it not be considered part of the system UI?
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Depends on the file your replacing ....
I'm gonna try to make the GB statusbar froyo. Tell you how it went
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With the icons and all? If successful please let me have it lol. Btw I'm replacing SystemUI.apk
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system ui is only icons and out line. example: hold power to get a menu. the icons will be different and maybe the outline a different colour. thats it. the icons also involve check boxes and things. not settings though.
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OK, well the forum for rebel rom 2.1 said that systemui.apk is the status bar.apk for that rom. So if I delete systemui.apk and replace it with retrodroid.apk. will I get my desired goal?
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Why not just try UOT Kitchen?