Has anyone had luck changing fonts in ICS? I've tried the obvious app solutions, as well as flashable .zip's, and even renaming the desired font to the same one as is in the /system/fonts folder and replacing it that way. Ideas?
...probably falls under your "tried all the obvious" courses of action, but the only way I've ever universally changed the fonts is through jrummy's "Root Tools" ...though I haven't tried it on AOKP yet.
LifeInAnalog said:
...probably falls under your "tried all the obvious" courses of action, but the only way I've ever universally changed the fonts is through jrummy's "Root Tools" ...though I haven't tried it on AOKP yet.
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I think I finally got it. I had taken SonySketch (desired font) regular, bold, italic, and bold-italic, and masked each of them with the proper name found in the /system/fonts file and made them into a flashable .zip but this didn't fix it. Today, I just dropped all of them into a folder on my SD card, and used Root Browser to copy-paste them over from my SD to /system/fonts and rebooted...VIOLA! The entire phone has been changed. I'm going to try making a flashable .zip again though so that it's easier to share.
EDIT: Here are the new flashable .zip's. I just took the Steel Droid 5 .zip that was on my desktop and erased everything but the fonts file then duplicated it, keeping META-INF but replacing the stock fonts in the 2nd .zip with the renamed Sony Sketch fonts. Tell me how it goes if you're interested.
Absolute system or from toolbox will change your fonts to whatever you like
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olorolo said:
Absolute system or from toolbox will change your fonts to whatever you like
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Have you tried this in ICS though? Because JRummy's Font Installer doesn't do the trick. No font installer has (Root Tools, ROM Toolbox, Font Installer, etc.) has done the trick yet on ICS. Only my renaming trick has done it for me on ICS. I know all of the switchers work on GB.
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I used to change fonts easily before froyo using the Root Explorer method but with Froyo when I reboot the N1 after changing the fonts it will get infinite loops!!
Is there any solutions to change fonts under froyo?
Works fine for me using metamorph.
Is it easy to do a font pack for metamorph?
If you want one of the fonts in this zip it's very easy:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6666433&postcount=56
As far as adding a font and having metamorph recognize it in an xml and apply it, I'm clueless.
moved to the Q&A forum.
MSigler said:
If you want one of the fonts in this zip it's very easy: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6666433=56 As far as adding a font and having metamorph recognize it in an xml and apply it, I'm clueless.
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I havent tried it on Froyo, but when I was running cyan 5.0.6 I replaced one of the fonts in the skaggz zip with a different one I wanted to use, applied it with metamorph and it worked fine. There was no need to edit any files unless I had wanted to change the name, but I just left it unchanged and my new font had the name of the one it replaced.
I've been trying for several days to change system fonts to the ubuntu font, and every tutorial I've come across doesn't work with my rooted GT540.
Has anybody managed to do that?
I tried using both update.zip methods and by means of applications... no luck with both methods.
fjsferreira said:
I've been trying for several days to change system fonts to the ubuntu font, and every tutorial I've come across doesn't work with my rooted GT540.
Has anybody managed to do that?
I tried using both update.zip methods and by means of applications... no luck with both methods.
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I couldn't get it to work either. I think the fonts are overwritten when the device is booted. Would be nice to change the fonts.
Finally, I got it working. Lg GT540 doesn't use droid font, but some other font named SJSans.ttf, wich is also on /system/fonts (I've never noticed this font there lol)
Just replace that font using root explorer. Just in case, fix permissions of replaced files to be like the other ones in that folder (I don't know if this is necessary though). Reboot.
Here's Ubuntu font family, with filenames ready to copy paste in /system/fonts.
It didn't work for me, some texts were readable but some weren't the clock wasn't showing..
TopGunBG said:
It didn't work for me, some texts were readable but some weren't the clock wasn't showing..
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It depends on the font you use, of course, and your language. If you use something like tahoma, everything should work, because this is a very complete font with support for many many characters and languages.
The ubuntu font works perfectly with Portuguese language.
I had to reupgrade and make a hard reset, the clock WAS missing! And my phone is set to English. I tryied the ubuntu fonts cuz i really like them nothing but trouble..
Ubuntu font pack works like a charm with Polish language, thanks a lot!
howdy guys - don't know how I ended up here, but if you're familiar with the regular method of changing fonts on android, the optimus is a bit different;
normal Clockopia.ttf is your SJGothicFull.ttf (this is the lockscreen clock)
normal DroidSans.ttf is your SJSans.ttf
normal DroidSans-Bold.ttf is your SJSans-Bold.ttf
I haven't tested this, but this should work for you guys with any font (you can even change the ones in my thread if you know how) Best of luck
Edit - again, if you know how, the new version of the comfortaa font is complete, so that should work as well, if not better than ubuntu.
I had same issue with clock going missing.
if your using root explorer.
hold down the font file you just move to system/font folder
select permission.
User - tick first(read) and second(write) box
Group - tick first(read) one only
Other - tick first(read) one only
so it should now look like
SJSans.ttf
[date here] rw-r--r--
restart and I got my clock text back along with my new font
lahan52 said:
I had same issue with clock going missing.
if your using root explorer.
hold down the font file you just move to system/font folder
select permission.
User - tick first(read) and second(write) box
Group - tick first(read) one only
Other - tick first(read) one only
so it should now look like
SJSans.ttf
[date here] rw-r--r--
restart and I got my clock text back along with my new font
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It worked, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!
Any screens with that Ubunt font on board?? Cos it looks not so cool on my PC I would like to see this mounted at phone.
so i've made a flashable zip of the comfortaa font, but for some reason it puts the phone into a bootloop upon flashing.
anyone wanna check the files out and point out what the problem is? thanks,
Cole
Are you rooted? If so, just use Custom Android Font or Font Installer from the Market. You will then have over 150 fonts to choose from, including Comfortaa.
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Post above this is probably a better and easier option, but looking at the zip, I'd pull out the DroidSansFallback, Clockopia, and DroidSansMono , then flash and see if u get the same results.
I haven't investigated fonts too much in ICS, but in previous builds (gingerbread), the flashable font zip really just needed to have DroidSans.ttf, DroidSans-Bold.ttf and Clockopia.ttf to replace your font.
HateMeILoveIt said:
Are you rooted? If so, just use Custom Android Font or Font Installer from the Market. You will then have over 150 fonts to choose from, including Comfortaa.
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using xda premium
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i was using one of those apps, but it sucked haha.
the default font is roboto correct?
i could just use adb to switch it, but i would like to know that i can make a working flashable zip
any help is appreciated
i just tried to re-do it like 5 times in a row, took out the fonts mentioned, pulled a different updater script and update binary and still no luck :/
the steps i'm taking are,
1. build all the files in the correct folders
2. zip all the files compression method Store with winrar
3. put the files in my SignApk folder
4. sign the files
5. take the zip and install via recovery
then i just boot loop :/
crzdcole said:
i just tried to re-do it like 5 times in a row, took out the fonts mentioned, pulled a different updater script and update binary and still no luck :/
the steps i'm taking are,
1. build all the files in the correct folders
2. zip all the files compression method Store with winrar
3. put the files in my SignApk folder
4. sign the files
5. take the zip and install via recovery
then i just boot loop :/
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You don't have to do all of that, unless you're just trying to do the script yourself as a challenge .
Find a working flash able font zip (check evo themes section), use 7zip to replace and remove fonts, and see if that works. If it does, then u can go script happy from there, knowing that those contents worked at least.
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Hi,
how do I change the default Font on the HTC One? I tried Font Installer, iFont and Root Toolbox, but none of them works. My device is rooted btw.
Thanks!
amorph said:
Hi,
how do I change the default Font on the HTC One? I tried Font Installer, iFont and Root Toolbox, but none of them works. My device is rooted btw.
Thanks!
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Curious about this as well
i'm also curious about how this is possible..
My guess is that Sense is using it's own font from some HTC resources, rather than the usual Android system one. So the usual apps for switching this will be changing the wrong thing...
It'll probably require some Sense-decompiling stuff...
*Edit* well- maybe not. There's a whole bunch of Fonts in /system/fonts, maybe you're just changing the wrong one...
Try TrickDroid Roms Tweak package.There you can choose and install some Fonts.
You can change the default font before flash a custom rom.
I don't know how to make a update.zip so... here's my way(doing it on the PC).
1. Rename fonts which you want to use to;
"Roboto-Regular.ttf"
"Roboto-Bold.ttf"
"Roboto-BoldItalic.ttf"
"Roboto-Italic.ttf"
2. Open a custom rom with winrar.
3. Drag&Drop renamed fonts into system/fonts.
4. Flash.
If you use TrickDroid, skip 2,3,4 and do this;
1. Open TrickDroidThemes.zip with winrar.
2. Drag&Drop renamed fonts to additions/fonts/asap
3. Apply theme. (choose "asap", of course)
you can also disable the low battery beep sound
I hope it helps
Here are a few font modules if you're interested. Most came from this thread. Go there to see examples:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/themes/fonts-flashable-zips-t3219827
If you find or have any other fonts just replace the ones from one of these modules (vrtheme/system/fonts).
Tulsadiver said:
Here are a few font modules if you're interested. Most came from this thread. Go there to see examples:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/themes/fonts-flashable-zips-t3219827
If you find or have any other fonts just replace the ones from one of these modules (vrtheme/system/fonts).
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I've used a font from the thread you linked above for years. It's the HelveticaNeue iOS7 (attached below). I can just replace all the fonts in one of your Magisk modules with the fonts from the zip I linked and flash? There are so many more font names in Q. I'm not sure where to find the condensed medium weights. I suppose I could just replace them with regular weights and be fine?
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I've used a font from the thread you linked above for years. It's the HelveticaNeue iOS7 (attached below). I can just replace all the fonts in one of your Magisk modules with the fonts from the zip I linked and flash? There are so many more font names in Q. I'm not sure where to find the condensed medium weights. I suppose I could just replace them with regular weights and be fine?
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Just use the ones in your zip except for roboto-medium and regular. Copy those to the side and rename them GoogleSans-Medium and regular and copy them back so that you have copies of both the GoogleSans and roboto fonts for those two.
Edit: Use this zip. Put the fonts in both of these font folders.
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Just use the ones in your zip except for roboto-medium and regular. Copy those to the side and rename them GoogleSans-Medium and regular and copy them back so that you have copies of both the GoogleSans and roboto fonts for those two.
Edit: Use this zip. Put the fonts in both of these font folders.
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Thank you! I copied all the Helvetica fonts over into your zip file into vrtheme/system/fonts and vrtheme/system/product/fonts. But in addition to GoogleSans-Medium and Regular I also renamed 6 other Helvetica fonts to DroidSans, AndroidClock, GoogleSans-Bold and BoldItalic, RobotoCondensed-Medium and MediumItalic. In the past we had to wipe cache/Dalvik cache after swapping fonts, is there anything in particular I need to do after flashing the zip/module in Magisk? I don't think we can even boot into stock recovery using Magisk's patched boot image.
One more question... in the event something is incompatible and I end up in a bootloop, it sounds like using an adb shell with root privileges I am able to undo the modification? Is there any other method for restoring stock/removing files flashed with Magisk if they throw me into a bootloop?
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Thank you! I copied all the Helvetica fonts over into your zip file into vrtheme/system/fonts and vrtheme/system/product/fonts. But in addition to GoogleSans-Medium and Regular I also renamed 6 other Helvetica fonts to DroidSans, AndroidClock, GoogleSans-Bold and BoldItalic, RobotoCondensed-Medium and MediumItalic. In the past we had to wipe cache/Dalvik cache after swapping fonts, is there anything in particular I need to do after flashing the zip/module in Magisk? I don't think we can even boot into stock recovery using Magisk's patched boot image.
One more question... in the event something is incompatible and I end up in a bootloop, it sounds like using an adb shell with root privileges I am able to undo the modification? Is there any other method for restoring stock/removing files flashed with Magisk if they throw me into a bootloop?
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For bootloops, see this thread
https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-3a/themes/magisk-modules-disabler-booting-magisk-t3976621
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For bootloops, see this thread
https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-3a/themes/magisk-modules-disabler-booting-magisk-t3976621
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Wow, thanks for the information. I'll give it a deeper read after work. Can I bother you to look over the template zip file you linked (with my swapped fonts), just to make sure the file looks ready to flash? The only thing I did was overwrite the fonts, but I am on the latest update (QQ1A.200105.002, Jan 2020). Not sure if that requires any updates to your template. If it's too much trouble, no worries. Really appreciate all your help.
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Wow, thanks for the information. I'll give it a deeper read after work. Can I bother you to look over the template zip file you linked (with my swapped fonts), just to make sure the file looks ready to flash? The only thing I did was overwrite the fonts, but I am on the latest update (QQ1A.200105.002, Jan 2020). Not sure if that requires any updates to your template. If it's too much trouble, no worries. Really appreciate all your help.
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Looks fine. No update necessary for firmware updates.
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Looks fine. No update necessary for firmware updates.
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Flashed the zip and everything worked essentially great. However, it appears I have a missing glyph in whatever font file the system is using for the lockscreen/always on digital clock. The colon ( : ) is missing in the time display. Unfortunately it's pretty unsightly. Any thoughts as to where the lockscreen pulls it's fonts or how to remedy this? Didn't have this issue with these fonts on previous devices.
Ditamae said:
Flashed the zip and everything worked essentially great. However, it appears I have a missing glyph in whatever font file the system is using for the lockscreen/always on digital clock. The colon ( : ) is missing in the time display. Unfortunately it's pretty unsightly. Any thoughts as to where the lockscreen pulls it's fonts or how to remedy this? Didn't have this issue with these fonts on previous devices.
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"Flashed the zip" doesn't give me much to go on. Did you flash all of them and get this, a particular one, maybe? Could you possibly be a little more specific?
In this folder there are several. Try these as I have done some work on them.
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"Flashed the zip" doesn't give me much to go on. Did you flash all of them and get this, a particular one, maybe? Could you possibly be a little more specific?
In this folder there are several. Try these as I have done some work on them.
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I'm sorry. I flashed the Magisk module zip you provided as template (originally called "mymagiskfontelegance"), after swapping over all my Helvetica fonts and renaming the file. I'll attach it to this post. The only place I see the missing glyph is for the colon on the lockscreen clock (see screenshot attached in previous post). It looks like the font used for the clock may be a medium or bold font file?
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I'm sorry. I flashed the Magisk module zip you provided as template (originally called "mymagiskfontelegance"), after swapping over all my Helvetica fonts and renaming the file. I'll attach it to this post. The only place I see the missing glyph is for the colon on the lockscreen clock (see screenshot attached in previous post). It looks like the font used for the clock may be a medium or bold font file?
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The only thing I could get to work was a thin font.
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The only thing I could get to work was a thin font.
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I always loved the lighter weights. Looks great. You saved me hours with FontForge trying to find the missing glyph. :good:
Tulsadiver said:
Here are a few font modules if you're interested. Most came from this thread. Go there to see examples:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/themes/fonts-flashable-zips-t3219827
If you find or have any other fonts just replace the ones from one of these modules (vrtheme/system/fonts).
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Hey. Does anyone know if these font modules work for Android 11? I've been using a font module Tulsadiver helped me with on Android 10 for quite a while (currently on the June update, QQ3A.200605.002). Not sure if I should remove the font module before updating, or if I can still use this after the update. Apparently the update was completed while I was asleep last night, despite having Automatic system updates disabled.
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Hey. Does anyone know if these font modules work for Android 11? I've been using a font module Tulsadiver helped me with on Android 10 for quite a while (currently on the June update, QQ3A.200605.002). Not sure if I should remove the font module before updating, or if I can still use this after the update. Apparently the update was completed while I was asleep last night, despite having Automatic system updates disabled.
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I would remove it to be safe. I have a new module. It's not mine but I tweaked it so that all you have to do is add the fonts to it in the CFI folder.