Hello, I have many doubts that I will numerate so that the answer can be more easy.
Question 1:
I have an Huawei p10 lite updated the other day. Finally i decided to update to Emui 8 (since I heard with it , i could change fonts style again ) ; I think , if i understood right, that to change fonts was possible with this phone by the default app "THEMES" , and this with Emui 4.
Since Emui 5, this option to change fonts disappeared from themes (I guess is this the reason why, when the other day i've instelled an app called "I font" , I changed the font with another one, and it seems it works, but when I tried to change again with some other fonts or return back to my original font, the app says that i should have go to Themes, and change the font from there. But since the option for change fonts don't exist anymore, i could not change fonts anymore too. Also, i noticed that in the app "I font" I could see the preview of many other fonts, but since I apply one of the new fonts, the fonts looks all the same, even if are different, also in the app. suddenly all the fonts looks the same as the font i've downloaded on my mobile, and there's no way to change it anymore. (in the truth i like this font, but i wish to change because it's not so easy to read)
Question2:
At that point, i decided to update, from Emui 5 to Emui 8 , as i heard with android 8 and emui 8, i could again change fonts without roots but by just the official app Themes. So I've updated to Emui 8 with my Huawei p10 lite, but yet, the option to change fonts in themes didn't appeared. I don't know the reason, since I saw many videos on youtube that with emui 8 , they could change fonts again. Why my emui 8 don't permit again to do so? And I also noticed that with Emui 8 it was possible to add the new feature 'night mode' (a real night mode) for the screen, and the white pages became all black and the text became white. It was very useful, but again, after update, this option don't exist as well... im very sad about it...
Question 3:
, what I should do at this point? I wonder if I can downgrade the Emui from 8 to 4.X? Since I really want to change fonts and try many new ones?
Question 4:
Also, where is located the folder "HWThemes"? Because I had also another idea, to keep the Emui 8 and insert manually fonts in the directory HWThemes , by following this tutorial https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-8/themes-apps/noroot-font-styles-updated-02-09-16-t3453559 (even if these fonts are not what I like most), but for giving a try are ok as well, but i can't find the foulder. It says
1".Download the fonts and rename from .zip to .hwt
2.Copy the hwt file to hwthemes folder in ur internal storage or sd card"
But when I download a zip font "chococooky" there's no .hwt extension, but the file is called DroidSansChinese.ttf .ttf, not .hwt. And the folder dont exist in my huawei with themes..
please can you help me?
Thanks a lot!
Im becaming crazy! The app Ifont says to select a downloaded font and go to folder "iFont/custom directory, but when i connect my huawei to my pc and i navigate on the folders, there's no iFont folder at all! I can't see the folder of the ifont app installed! I'm very stressed.... I waste more than half day just to change fonts to my phone! Its incredible....really!
Im thinking to root my huawei p10 lite. I'm really tired to spend an entire day just to change fonts! How can i root my phone? Thanks for help again..
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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.
i was using this rom perfectly, till i tried to change the font.
i read on the web,saying that what you need to do is to change DroidSans.ttf DroidSans-Bold.ttf DroidSansFallback.ttf ( i am a chinese user) these three fonts and their permission, and reboot, everything will be done. but when i do that, my phone stuck on the HTC ONE logo screen. so i had to recover it.i took a close look at the /system/fonts, and i realize DFHEIA7A.ttf DFHEIA5A.ttf and DroidSansFallback.ttf are all chinese fonts file. so, at this point i am not sure what should i do. Anyone ever tried to change fonts with this rom?share ur experience plzz
des.rafael said:
i was using this rom perfectly, till i tried to change the font.
i read on the web,saying that what you need to do is to change DroidSans.ttf DroidSans-Bold.ttf DroidSansFallback.ttf ( i am a chinese user) these three fonts and their permission, and reboot, everything will be done. but when i do that, my phone stuck on the HTC ONE logo screen. so i had to recover it.i took a close look at the /system/fonts, and i realize DFHEIA7A.ttf DFHEIA5A.ttf and DroidSansFallback.ttf are all chinese fonts file. so, at this point i am not sure what should i do. Anyone ever tried to change fonts with this rom?share ur experience plzz
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Anytime I've flashed fonts I put them in the downloads folder and just flashed them in recovery (install zip)
There are fonts here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2233992
I can't help you with Chinese fonts but that's what I done to change fonts in ARHD 8.
Hope I've helped...
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Hola guys. To all of you. Particularly the ones who are familiar with MIUI. I will just stick to the point. If you ARE familiar with miui then you must have come across those flashy themes. You must also have found out the way to bypass the infamous theme policy WSM tools and Xposed and all. But I recently started taking interest in those flashy themes. You know that once you download a theme from the default Themes app the mtz file starts getting downloaded and as soon as the downloading has finished it gets unpacked into bits (com.android.contacts, com.miui.home, icons, lock_wallpaper, locksreen and so on) and gets copied to the MIUI folder in main storage and again into data/system/theme. This is the first problem. I can't copy the whole mtz file to a safe place because it gets unpacked as soon as it has been downloaded which is basically a zip file containing several other zip files that is, the 'bits' I was talking about. Second thing. the default themes app does not recognize mtz files downloaded from the official miui themes website. It declares them as third party themes. What I did was, took some of those 'bits' and replaced some XML files inside them and some png elements and put them back into data/system/theme. But miui has a way to prevent this from happening. As soon as it detects a modified file present in data/system/theme it reverts back to the default plain theme by deleting all files from data/system/theme. My guess is it keeps checking out verifying in regular intervals the checksums that it must have generated earlier. The same thing happens if I just replace a bit in the mentioned directory with a bit from another theme. So my questions are:
1. Is there a way to preserve the mtz file downloaded from within the default Themes app as a whole mtz file?
2. Can I make changes to just the Themes app so that it would apply any mtz file?
3. Is there a way to prevent miui from continuously checking or verifying the checksums that it has generated? (just a guess but I reckon thats what it actually does) because for an hour or so after replacing or modifying the 'bits' everything works fine but the reverting process takes place in an hour or so.
Thats all folks! jk. Any help or suggestion would be really appreciated because I think a thread like this was long since needed here. And dont talk about visiting MIUI's official forums. Most of the guys there don't know half the things that is really worth discussing. Thank you guys.
note- dont want to use WSM tools nor can I find one for miui7.
note2- if I change the permissions of the folder (data/system/theme) to 444 allowing READ permissions only, the phone would just reboot without warning and continue to reboot until the permissions are changed back to normal (755).
Good morning all,
Before getting a Nexus 6P around a week ago, I had been using an app called "Emoji Switcher (root)" to use the iOS-styled emojis in conjunction with Google Keyboard. I prefer to use this emoji style, despite Google's updates, because many of my friends and family use iPhones, and I like to make sure we are conveying the same message as emojis are a very visual language.
Emoji Switcher (root) Thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2722892
I was looking to replicate this on the Developer Preview of Android N, and after a great deal of headache going through many incompatible apps and methods, I have figured it out and would like to spare anyone else who is interested the headache. Many root file explorers will not allow you to modify the system .tff file that controls the emojis across the device, so I had to get old school with it.
I first downloaded a .tff file from the thread below that includes all of the iOS emojis through Unicode 9 as well as the Unicode 10 candidates that those of us on Android N have on their keyboards currently. Download and unzip the attachment "iOS_unicode9_emojis_Mr.Yawnie.zip." You do not need any of the modified keyboards if you are on Android N! Within this container is the file "NotoColorEmoji.tff." This is the same name as the file we will be replacing, just keep it in your downloads folder for now.
Mr.Yawnee's iOS Emoji Thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gene...mojis-t3348544
Next, you will need to reboot into TWRP and mount the system partition. When your system is mounted return to the TWRP home screen, go to "Advanced," and then "File Manager."
Within the File Manager navigate to the root folder --> System --> Fonts, and scroll down until you see the file "NotoColorEmoji.tff." This is the standard emoji font that Android pulls for your keyboards, incoming messages, etc. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE DO NOT DELETE THIS FILE. Simply rename the file to "NotoColorEmojiOld.tff" (Or whatever you would like to call it) and LEAVE IT IN THE FONTS FOLDER.
Now, still within the TWRP file manager, navigate back to your downloads folder where you unzipped the "NotoColorEmoji.tff" file that we downloaded earlier. Simply copy this file into the / --> System --> Fonts folder we were just in. It will not overwrite anything since we renamed the original file.
Unmount the system partition and reboot your Nexus. Your emoji should all be updated and replaced with iOS-style emoji! These emoji are working on the stock keyboard for me, and I imagine that since they replaced the system font they should work with any custom keyboards you may be using.
If you wish to revert, simply reboot into TWRP, mount system, go back into the Fonts folder, delete the "NotoColorEmoji.tff" file that we added in, and then RENAME "NotoColorEmojiOld.tff" to "NotoColorEmoji.tff." You can potentially get your phone into a bootloop if you do not do this step!!
Credits and thank you to @Mr.Yawnie for the wonderful emoji .tff, and thank you to @D_Steve595 for the Emoji Switcher (root) app that I would typically use and have enjoyed so much.
Please go easy on my forum skills as this is my first post on XDA. I will answer and questions as well as I can. I am excited to repay this amazing community with some knowledge of my own!
Cheers,
Eric
@Mr.Yawnie, would you be cool with the iOS emoji font being added to Emoji Switcher?
I was able to do this all within the OS using Root Explorer Pro. Thanks for the info - was curious about this myself!
@Nitemare3219 How were you able to mount system with the phone running? For the life of me I couldn't get any root file explorers to even let me change permissions on anything in my system folder.
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@Nitemare3219 How were you able to mount system with the phone running? For the life of me I couldn't get any root file explorers to even let me change permissions on anything in my system folder.
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I literally hit the button that said MOUNT R/W when in the system folder. I can swap back and forth between the two with no issues, running latest SuperSU beta & BusyBox.
Thank you for sharing these links. I too prefer these emoji. Worked perfectly.
Well I ****ed up... I tried using it on Es file explorer now I need the original ttf ..
Can someone upload
Update *** I got it back...
Hi, I'm sorry but I'm not expert when it comes to flashing files but I do have some basic knowledge. I have a question. I'm running stick emui 4.0. And I wanted to change all the stock Roboto fonts in my phone to the San Francisco font. I know I could do it by applying a theme but I actually want all the typefaces, bold, medium, thin, light etc. So I found a zip file which was meant to be flashed on stock android roms and it had all the San Francisco fonts faces (Link at the bottom). So I extracted the zip file and within the /system/fonts directory of the extracted zip file are all the fonts I needed. So I was wondering if I root my device and access the root directory of my device and replace the all the fonts in the /system/fonts with the fonts I found in the zip archive. Will it damage my phone? Or brick it? Or cause any other problems? And as I'm running the stock emui 4.0 rom will it cause problems when I'm changing themes or change the font style by applying a theme? If there's anyone who has done this or has an huawei phone which they experiment on it would be great if someone could help me. Thanks and sorry about the long post
The font zip file is the last one in this thread named "San Francisco UI"
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/themes/fonts-premium-flashable-font-zips-t3115033