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How do you remove a system wallpaper?

Hi all,
Tried searching but can't find any answers. And couldn't find anything while browsing folders from Astro for the wallpaper files.
How do you remove wallpapers that's in the system? And also, remove a specific option (for example, Wallpapers Launcher) where you select wallpaper from? (ie, when you go menu/wallpaper there's a pop that ask you where you can choose the wallpaper from? How to remove an option)
Thanks in advance!

You can't remove the pop up option. Removing the system wallpapers involves pulling the launcher apk file and removing the wallpaper files from it, then pushing it back. There's no such thing as a wallpapers folder in Android. You have to be rooted to even do that much. Don't bother wasting your time. Live with the way it's currently set up.

uansari1 said:
You can't remove the pop up option. Removing the system wallpapers involves pulling the launcher apk file and removing the wallpaper files from it, then pushing it back. There's no such thing as a wallpapers folder in Android. You have to be rooted to even do that much. Don't bother wasting your time. Live with the way it's currently set up.
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Thanks for the reply! I'll play around with launcher apk file and see how that goes...

If you don't want to mess around with that, I have a modified Launcher2.apk that all I did was repackage the wallpapers. It is based off of Manup456's Launcher2.apk from his 1.9r3 theme for CM5.0.4.1 I'll post some screens of a few wallpapers.
Code:
adb remount
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adb pull /system/app/Launcher2.apk Launcher2.apkBAK
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adb push Launcher2.apk /system/app/Launcher2.apk

So it seems the Launcher.apk is too big. I am at work and can't access any sort of file sharing websites. Anybody have any suggestions of how I can upload this?

ccunningham83 said:
So it seems the Launcher.apk is too big. I am at work and can't access any sort of file sharing websites. Anybody have any suggestions of how I can upload this?
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Have you compressed it into a zip file?

I'm not sure I'm doing it right. I am using 7-zip. I will take everything I want to zip, highlight it, right click, then select 7-zip => add to archive, use the default settings (Normal compression level). When I'm done I get a nice .zip file, change it to .apk and resign. I thought about changing the compression level, but I don't want to mess it up if everything is working great.

ccunningham83 said:
I'm not sure I'm doing it right. I am using 7-zip. I will take everything I want to zip, highlight it, right click, then select 7-zip => add to archive, use the default settings (Normal compression level). When I'm done I get a nice .zip file, change it to .apk and resign. I thought about changing the compression level, but I don't want to mess it up if everything is working great.
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You can't do it that way. What you should do instead, is to open the original apk file, by right-clicking on it and choosing "Open with"... and use 7zip.
That will open the apk archive showing you the contents. Find the appropriate folder where the wallpapers are located. You can now delete the wallpapers or replace them by overwriting... I think you can add more as well, but haven't tried that. Then just close 7zip and save the apk if prompted. There's no need to resign the apk this way either.
That's it... just push that back to /system and reboot.
Edit: Make sure to do a nand backup first.

I may give it a try. The Launcher2.apk in Manup456's theme is 10.9 MB though, so even that is over the limit to attach to a post here on XDA. Back to the original posters question, you can delete the wallpapers in the Launcher2.apk, but you will have a blank spot where you deleted the Launcher. It is best to replace both the wallpapers with ones of the same name. There will be one by one name and another one with the same name except "_small" after it. They are sized 960x800 for the normal and 170x142 for the small wallpaper (the preview one).

ccunningham83 said:
I may give it a try. The Launcher2.apk in Manup456's theme is 10.9 MB though, so even that is over the limit to attach to a post here on XDA. Back to the original posters question, you can delete the wallpapers in the Launcher2.apk, but you will have a blank spot where you deleted the Launcher. It is best to replace both the wallpapers with ones of the same name. There will be one by one name and another one with the same name except "_small" after it. They are sized 960x800 for the normal and 170x142 for the small wallpaper (the preview one).
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This is the reason I recommended that the OP not waste his time. What's the problem with having a separate wallpapers folder on your SD card and applying from there? I have 10-12 wallpapers that I found there and it works great. The only thing "some" people may find unappealing is that it shows up in the Gallery...

I think most people put it in the gallery and leave it at that. I however, seem to make everything extremely difficult. I enjoy having the wall paper show up in the Launcher2 gallery instead of the gallery app. I like it because it is already sized, formatted, and doesn't show up in the gallery. Plus, it is cool to show off (though most people don't understand the amount of work that went into it).

How To NinjaMorph

So I recently released a new app for theming and modifying apks and jars right from the phone, this app is called NinjaMorph.
Here I am just going to explain how to use NinjaMorph as per request from those that have the app.
NinjaMorph was made so that we could more easily make changes to the system apks and jar files from our phones without needing to apply a packaged theme or hook our phones up to the computer.
In order to use NinjaMorph you will need Busybox installed, cp properly symlinked, and at least 20mb of space of your SD card.
When you first open the app you will see three buttons at the bottom.
The first is "New Project", which is the one your going to start with.
Select "New Project" and navigate to an apk or .jar file of your choice, excluding apps that need to be signed like Market apps.
A good example would be for you to go to "System" > "framework" > "framework-res.apk"
The app will then extract the contents of the apk, as well as making a backup of it on your sdcard "/sdcard/AndroidThemes/backup/"
After its done it will ask you to pick a file to change, navigate to "res" > then a drawable folder with images in it.
Once there you should see all the images there in that folder, select one and it will ask you to pick one to replace it with, NinjaMorph will rename the file you pick to replace it to the appropriate name.
After that just keep changing things until you've done everything you'd like to do.
If you have an existing project you can use the "existing Project" button to continue where you left off.
If your done with your project and you want to apply the changes, Choose the "Finish Project" button and select which project you want to finish, NinjaMorph will do its thing and thats it.
Note that after making some changes you may need to reboot to see the changes made.
Anymore questions, ask away.

Wow this seems pretty great! good work Stericson!
I will try it to change around a few files in CM5 for the G1.

Let me know how it goes

Loving it, the next step would be to select multiple files to replace, and then have it either chose a directory to find the replacements, or individually select the replacements one at a time.
its like theming has been revolutionized.....again
Thanks! Just made theming on-the-run possible...I'm screwed now, gonna be playing w/ my theme everywhere, where as before I had to be at my home computer

im totally buying this, great job

I'm not sure how this lets you theme your phone without a computer... don't you need a computer to create the new graphics that you're using to replace the old graphics?

you can DL them from the web straight to your phone- eg. manup456's droid icons...

So, I could potentially change Blue color on Power Widget to green by using this? Provided that I have necessary Settings.apk on SD card or those PNGs have to be extracted to a folder? Am I getting this right?
Or change icon for particular application?

They need to be extracted to a folder..

I can't find the app in the Market. I'm on a Espresso 2.1 rom.

Your work is incredible, I have not put my phone down for three days.

great app, but takes forever going back and forth and back and forth

You know you can copy multiple files at once right? Use the copy button.

and that does what exactly?

Wow, Slick, Fast, Totally awesome!
Great way to easily micro-customize a theme.

if i move a .apk i got from the market into the /system/app folder and install it from there, will i not have to worry about resigning it?

so i changed my battery around and now the market dosnt work

One issue that I'm seeing currently is that the app will FC if I try to delete a project after having applied it.

App not working
I tried to morph the Helix2...would this be one of the signed apps you cannot morph with ninjamorph? BTW I love the app!

Tried to replace some .9 png's from ADW launcher for 1.6. got a black screen after reboot.
Changing pics on other apk's is working.
The start checks are done again and again. Is this a an issue of my phone software?

[Q] Workaround for more paper icons?

I've been using adw with the "paperless theme" recently and love it (look it up).
It includes a bunch of icons for common apps to make them fit in with the hand drawn theme. Unfortunately, on my hero a lot of them dont work, probably due to sense customisations and replacements. End result is a mixture of awesome paperness and the normal icons, bleh.
I want to download the apk for the theme so that I can open it up, get the icon files out and then use bettercut or something to apply them to shortcuts of my choosing. Only problem is, I can't work out how to get hold of the apk. I can't find it outside of the market, and once installed it doesn't show up in File Manager's apps list, so I can't copy it to SD.
Is there a way of retreiving it from the phone? Or 'intercepting' the market link and directly downloading the apk to SD instead? I've read about a solution using adb to get the apk off the phone but since my trusty hero won't connect over usb any more, that's not an option.
Any ideas?

pizza65 said:
I've been using adw with the "paperless theme" recently and love it (look it up).
It includes a bunch of icons for common apps to make them fit in with the hand drawn theme. Unfortunately, on my hero a lot of them dont work, probably due to sense customisations and replacements. End result is a mixture of awesome paperness and the normal icons, bleh.
I want to download the apk for the theme so that I can open it up, get the icon files out and then use bettercut or something to apply them to shortcuts of my choosing. Only problem is, I can't work out how to get hold of the apk. I can't find it outside of the market, and once installed it doesn't show up in File Manager's apps list, so I can't copy it to SD.
Is there a way of retreiving it from the phone? Or 'intercepting' the market link and directly downloading the apk to SD instead? I've read about a solution using adb to get the apk off the phone but since my trusty hero won't connect over usb any more, that's not an option.
Any ideas?
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TL;DR
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pizza65 said:
I've been using adw with the "paperless theme" recently and love it (look it up).
It includes a bunch of icons for common apps to make them fit in with the hand drawn theme. Unfortunately, on my hero a lot of them dont work, probably due to sense customisations and replacements. End result is a mixture of awesome paperness and the normal icons, bleh.
I want to download the apk for the theme so that I can open it up, get the icon files out and then use bettercut or something to apply them to shortcuts of my choosing. Only problem is, I can't work out how to get hold of the apk. I can't find it outside of the market, and once installed it doesn't show up in File Manager's apps list, so I can't copy it to SD.
Is there a way of retreiving it from the phone? Or 'intercepting' the market link and directly downloading the apk to SD instead? I've read about a solution using adb to get the apk off the phone but since my trusty hero won't connect over usb any more, that's not an option.
Any ideas?
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If your usb doesn't work anymore use the wireless adb... pretty sure its on the market still. Get root explorer and check in system/app you'll find your apks there copy and paste them to your sd card.

here you go

[Q] How to hide folders from showing in gallery.

I'm wondering is there any way to hide folders or keep them from appearing in the 3d gallery? I use beautiful widgets and have a ton of skins on my SD card and they all appear in separate folders in the gallery which really bothers me when trying to find pictures or folders I need.

I don't know of any way to do this in the stock gallery.
Quickpic 1) allows you to do this, and b) is much faster than stock. It's what I use for both those reasons.

Put an empty file named .nomedia in the folder you wish to hide pictures.
Sent from my HTC Hero making C.R.E.A.M.

Yep. No media works every time.

Thanks guys ill give that a try

Dang it! Forgot all about that! This is why lurkers should just lurk....

Lol Hell no pimpin. You recommended a good alternative to the built-in gallery and 3D. And it's a good recommendation to boot. So now they have two great things to add to their hero.

Methinks it the pr0nz that needs hidden, not bw skins.
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Adding Icon Pack to Android Market?

I'd like to release an icon pack that I've created to the Android Market. I currently have one app on the market, but am unsure of how to upload the icon pack. Basically It is a .zip file full of the icons. I don't want to make a launcher specific pack, just have the icons available for download.
How do I go about doing this?

robb01 said:
I'd like to release an icon pack that I've created to the Android Market. I currently have one app on the market, but am unsure of how to upload the icon pack. Basically It is a .zip file full of the icons. I don't want to make a launcher specific pack, just have the icons available for download.
How do I go about doing this?
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Why not just put them on here?

btm fdr said:
Why not just put them on here?
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Easier release - More people to see it - plenty more reasons.
Anyways, I'm not completely sure but I think you'd have to compile the icons into an apk

robb01 said:
I'd like to release an icon pack that I've created to the Android Market. I currently have one app on the market, but am unsure of how to upload the icon pack. Basically It is a .zip file full of the icons. I don't want to make a launcher specific pack, just have the icons available for download.
How do I go about doing this?
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Even I'm looking for an answer to this. But I know how to create apk from raw icons, so never really searched for it.
Anyway, you can check with the developer of "Lucid Rounds" icons pack. He has his icons pack in the market, which essentially is a zip, wrapped in a apk. i.e. when you install his app, it gives you a button to press to download the icons zip.

Thanks, I sent him an email. Surprised no one knows how to do this.

robb01 said:
Thanks, I sent him an email. Surprised no one knows how to do this.
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How to do what though? The market only stores apps, so it would have to be an apk and if you don't want it be launcher specific, what exactly would that apk do?
You could easily do this with a variety of methods (off the top of my head):
Same as Lucid Rounds author (I have that and hate this method)
Just store your icons as raw assets and tell users where they are
Store icons as raw assets and let users save them to SD in your app
Store icons remotely and let users save them to SD in your app
Include the icons as extra data for your app and save that to SD automatically (e.g. like a game with extra data)
The last method is best IMHO, especially with the new partial updates the Play Store supports, that way you'd never need to update the app, just the icons.

djmcnz said:
How to do what though? The market only stores apps, so it would have to be an apk and if you don't want it be launcher specific, what exactly would that apk do?
You could easily do this with a variety of methods (off the top of my head):
Same as Lucid Rounds author (I have that and hate this method)
Just store your icons as raw assets and tell users where they are
Store icons as raw assets and let users save them to SD in your app
Store icons remotely and let users save them to SD in your app
Include the icons as extra data for your app and save that to SD automatically (e.g. like a game with extra data)
The last method is best IMHO, especially with the new partial updates the Play Store supports, that way you'd never need to update the app, just the icons.
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Thanks, the lucid rounds author got back with me, and I just followed his directions. Its basically a zip file to download, and I got it in the market. Not ideal, but it works.