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[Epic 4G General] rocket321:
Even with reading lots of threads it would be hard to know where to start.

What you need to know:

ODIN - a tool which lets you directly flash "stuff" (roms, kernels, recoveries) to your phone when in download mode. Find threads/directions to get this all setup because you'll need it. (drivers, etc) Be careful with Odin, it can brick your phone if you don't follow directions.

CWM 3101 - Current version of clockwork recovery mod. This is what you need to be able to flash things from the SD Card.

EI22 - Current version of Gingerbread OS. Don't use anything older. The stock kernel from samsung will overwrite any custom recovery at bootup, so if you want CWM you will need to use a custom kernel. Most (all?) custom ROMs include a custom kernel so if you go the route of a custom ROM this becomes a non-issue.
[Epic 4G General] benjamins_2002:
rocket321, Very good information for the beginners.

Here is the link directly to QBking77. It's a step-by-step video explaining how to install my personal favorite ROM to date, "ACS ICS 4.0". Very clean look, very stable, pre-rooted, overclockable.

http://www.youtube.com/user/qbking77#p/u/30/GZCF5qXsn_M

Another thing worth mentioning is that only certain Kernel's with work certain ROM's. The kernel included in that ACS ICS ROM is the Samurai Kernel. I do recommend installing the "Samurai-2.6.35_gen1.0.4+" with the ACS ICS ROM at...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1342047
[Epic 4G General] URwannabehack:
Good explanation, I didn't mean to sound off putting by saying do your own work and research...there are plenty of people in here willing to help, hence why I mentioned QBKing77; dude knows his ****, and his how to videos are great for noobs (myself included) and experts alike. I just believe you should do your homework...get some base knowledge, and jump in...you can learn a lot from how to videos, but you'll never get better of you just rely on other people to show you what to do.

Odin is key, get comfortable with this program.

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EI22 ACS ICS
[Epic 4G General] BillyBob3:
One more thing...ditch the usb cable that came with the epic. Its crap. Go to best buy (or other mega store) and get a blackberry cable. You will need this for odin.
[Epic 4G General] umby24:
and if you love your keyboard, but hate that it tends to skip when you're typing too fast, a good rom is the way to go.
[Epic 4G General] URwannabehack:
Yeah, definitely get rid of the stock Sammy mUSB, it was the cause of a lot of my initial problems. Blackberry and HTC cables have worked great.

Like I sad, these devices have been out awhile, and there is TONS of really great stuff available, check out the development section, and just absorb as much as you can...also, take advantage of the general and q and sections of the forum.

Good luck!

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EI22 ACS ICS

V6 supercharged, adrenaline injected
[Galaxy 3 Themes and Apps] raja4sure:
hey All !!! Once Again....

Here is the ICS Keyboard which is Working on Our device.....

Hope you Like It...
[Galaxy 3 Themes and Apps] Digibonez:
Thanks mate. My first impression is that this keyboard works very comfortable and smooth. It has some options to do correction based on your sentences and not only on the characters you type. You can also select the level of correction. As last I want to add that I feel as if this is the fastest keyboard I ever used. Great find!!

Send from my Samsung GT-5800.
[Galaxy 3 Themes and Apps] ichigogb:
Do you think it is better than samsunk key board?
[Galaxy 3 Themes and Apps] Digibonez:
Yes I think so. It does not yet support all languages though.

Send from my Samsung GT-5800.
[Galaxy 3 Themes and Apps] ichigogb:
I know I sound like a noob but do you know how I can swap keyboard I tried long pressing the text box and selecting input method but I can only find swype, Samsung & gingerbread. Keyboard
[Galaxy 3 Themes and Apps] bscraze:
Go to locale and text in settings and enable the keyboard then you can swap the keyboard when long pressing the text box :)
[Galaxy 3 Themes and Apps] Digibonez:
From your main screen:

Menu button->locale & text->select input method

Send from my Samsung GT-5800.
[Galaxy 3 Themes and Apps] i_rnb:
Its updated version is now compitable for mdpi & ldpi phones .. dl direct from market.. :)

-tapatalked by RnB
[Galaxy 3 Themes and Apps] ichigogb:
Thanks
[Galaxy 3 Themes and Apps] peter_baz:
in market it says it has greek but it doesnt :\

i dont care about dictionary just the characters.if some1 could make it happen would be awesome :D

thnx
[Galaxy 3 Themes and Apps] bscraze:
Awesome keyboard man works great on stock :) will hit thanks button when i use com
[Galaxy 3 Themes and Apps] bscraze:
There's a bug that when i try to type full caps, the keyboard will fc. Other than that perfect
[Galaxy 3 Themes and Apps] Shree_Jamdar:
Thanks!

i thought it would be heavier, but its actually faster and consumes lesser memory than GB kb!
[Galaxy 3 Themes and Apps] alen1901:
I got ics keyboard force close on phone restart. And have some rear bugs, nothing too much.

Sent from my GT-I5800
[Galaxy 3 Themes and Apps] zavisa:
Great thing, thanks!!!
[Galaxy 3 Themes and Apps] Skivit:
tried downloading via qr code, got this error message, anyone any ideas?
[Galaxy 3 Themes and Apps] i_rnb:
this app is available free on market..
[Galaxy 3 Themes and Apps] Mohanshbhr:
User name changed!!!!!!!!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chad_Petree:
I got the full screen caller id app and besides doing a crappy job of matching my contacts the images shown are big but very low res :/
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] itsmee22:
Using any launcher, when I have an App that has a "More" on the main menu, when I hit it I get another menu with grey text on a white background. It's almost unreadable. This happens with all Apps that have a "more" i.e. second menu. The main menu is fine.

Anyone else notice this or is it a problem unique to my system?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] orlandoxpolice:
I have encountered this as well. Happened with go launcher settings.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] MonkeysInACan:
I have the same problem. If you press down on the menu options you can see what it says then move away if you dont want to select it. I noticed it first on google maps.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] xtalman:
Anyone have a fix or work-around for this issue? It's driving me nuts.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] xdahgary:
Can i see a screenshot?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] MonkeysInACan:
It happens on a lot of different apps. Mostly when you press the more menu.

Picture of the menu when it opens and the other one is what it looks like when you press on a menu option.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] xtalman:
The other problem I have is that the black status bar at the bottom sometimes covers up menu items.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cell4review:
same

my friend

same problem with me
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] zaptoons:
I have a suspicion what the culprit of this may be, but I don't know enough to dare test the theory.

The menus affected by this looked to me to be .png images due to the gradients and drop shadows. I used root explorer to extract my framework-res.apk file from the system/app. I examined it on my PC by changing .apk to .zip and extracting the contents.

In res/drawable-mdpi there are what appear to me to be the UI .png files. It's fairly easy to ID most of the files the Nook interface is using.

The file I suspect causing white menus is: "menu_background.9.png"

Right next to it is a file called "list_selector_background_pressed.9.png" which looks to me like the same gradient file when you press the white menus.

I opened menu_background file in Photoshop and grayed out the white BG (saved it keeping the BG transparent) but I'm way too chicken to attempt to recreate the apk file and try and try to replace it in the system/app folder. Maybe a developer that really *knows* what they are doing could look into this? (Otherwise I would NOT mess with any of these files.)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Mama Luigi:
Similar problem - in both Titanium Backup (when you pull up the filter menu) and when setting file permissions in Root Explorer, there's black text on a black background next to all the check boxes and radio buttons.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] downsay:
This sounds like a very real possibility. Hopefully someone who knows what they are doing will be able to help you out. I would absolutely love a fix for this issue. This is one of my few remaining frustrations with this device.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] jlmwrite:
Same problem here with any number of different apps. I'm using Zeam.

I have a workaround of sorts. Press and hold in the white area to show the text on that line. If you want to choose that option, release. If it's not what you want, then slide your finger up or down and release.

Ain't elegant, but at least I can see the text and decide. Since most "more" menus only contain 3 or 4 items, it's not too difficult.

Hopefully someone will find a real patch for this issue soon.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] zmobie:
I thought this was an issue with go launcher; good thing I read this thread and realized it was nook related. There is a app in the android market that makes go launcher menus have a dark background and that's a workaround for now.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] kes00601:
Any idea on the name of the app?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] zmobie:
I'll try to find it; a sec. I didn't install it and just saw it when browsing for themes last week sometime. I didn't realize at the time that the menus would bug me....

Here we go, actually an xda release: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1202800 I probably misremembered it as an android market app :)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] dang69:
Here's another post of the same file in case...

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=16923545&postcount=2
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] zaptoons:
I checked the same files on my DroidX, and the same files match the corresponding menus. (It has grey menu bgs and blue selection color, and sure enough, the same .png files match.) Also the popup dial that shows up in Titanium/Root Explorer and others is easily identified as well. (popup_full_dark.9.png and popup_top_dark.9.png)

I was right about not messing with system/framework/framework-res.apk (I wrongly listed it as system/app in my last post). Googling around, it can't be changed in place without creating a boot loop. I did find this script though:

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/easy-method-to-change-framework-res-apk/

However- modifying and re-zipping the framework-res.apk file has to be done correctly as well (IE: using 7z in 'store' mode) or it still will cause boot loops. Some insight in this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1225565

In other words: even though I *think* I know something, I'm still not going to try it. Also, I suspect it may be easier just to invert the text colors with modified settings rather than change the theme images.

For anyone with experience modding Android creating/changing themes, all of this should be child's play. For mere mortals, I'm not going near it. I can live with a few blanked out menus for now since the press/hold workaround works.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] downsay:
Both this and the previous thread with the GoLauncherEx with the dark background only fix the problem within the menu accessed from the desktop of golauncherex

It does not address any of the other white on white problems, unfortunately:(
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
Glad to find this thread, the white menus is the only problem I'm really having (apart from crashes on certain settings sections) causing any real issues now.

Once somebody can fix this te nook tablet will be great, as it standards it's now a real problem :(
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] johninsf:
Same problem with ADW Launcher EX "More" menu and the subsequent ADW Settings screen.

Rooting has made this B&N NT the sweetest tablet. A fix for this "white on white" or "black on black" would be most awesome. Wish I knew how.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
Totally agree, Rooted it's a great tablet, I'm quite surprised how much nicer it is compared to my Asus Eeepad transformer. Hopefully somebody is clever enough to come up with a patch / tweak for this quickly. I'm not going to hold my breath though :(
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] johninsf:
Not to get off topic but check out VTL Launcher. It is tablet optimized and works well! It costs 2.99 and built from ADW Launcher framework. I didn't see the ability to re-size icons though which is what I LOVE about ADW. It is so configurable.

On VTL, you have access to a new and viewable VTL menu (that you can see) but it does not solve the issue on "more" menus.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ansar99:
Yeppers, this is quite annoying, especially on new apps where you don't know what the settings are before hand. :)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] zaptoons:
Someone with experience modding themes, specifically changing framework-res.apk properly could fix this easily. I'm guessing what wouldn't be easy is finding a failsafe way to make the method easy enough that noobs could do it without wrecking their NT's.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Drewmungus:
Sounds like you might want to check out Ninjamorph in the android Market. It allows you to extract and repack apks right from your phone. It's pretty simple to use too. Google it there's tons of tutorials.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
That’s perfect! Thanks :)

For anybody having the issue, Ninja morph can sort the issue. I just had a play around and I no longer have white on white :) It's still not perfect at the moment (picked a dodgy colour but it's OK) but I can now read the menus!

So to summarise, if you edit the images found by zaptoons and the use Ninjamorph as suggested by Drewmungus you can cure you're white on white menus!

Just shows that team work from like minded people gets the job done.

Result!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] itsmee22:
Can you tell us exactly which files you changed and what you changed them with?

Thanks.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
It's actually pretty straight forward.

Download Ninjamorph from the Market

Open ninjamorph and select new project

Navigate to /system/framework and select framework-res.apk at this point ninjamorph expands the file and stores it on your SDcard as a folder.

select Res folder

Select drawable-mdpi

scrowl down and select menu_backgroun.9.png, you will be asked what to replace it with, just select the modified file and it will replace the original.

Once you've done the above click back and then click on finish project, select the project. Say yes to the warnings. I didn't zip align it

It will do it's thing, once rebooted your menus will have the colour of the file you gave it as a replacement :)

Just as a simple hint, all I did to get a modified file was using es file explorer I went to my /sdcard/AndroidThemes/workspace/framework-resapk/res/drawable-mdpi and sent myself the menu_backgroun.9.png file which I then edited in photoshop to make it a solid colour and sent it back to my tablet (saved it using web save to keep file size small). It was then available to select

at point 6.

Hope that helps people :)

Thanks to everyone who together got us to this point :)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] succulent:
Can you upload your edited framework-res apk?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
Yes sure I will do later on for people if it helps.

Have to wait for my wife to go out before I can get the tablet back out again ;)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
Post of modified apk removed as it appears to have caused issues on somebody elses tablet. Possibly due to file signature or permissions. But whichever, follow my previous post and edit the framework file yourself. It really is quite easy to do and I've even posted up the edited image file a few posts on.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] downsay:
Just as a warning...I did exactly as you stated above and now my nook tablet is stuck in a boot loop.

I did a hard factory reset...and it's still stuck in a boot loop. Anyone have any suggestions to get me back up and running?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
That’s strange, I did mine and it's working perfectly, there again I did mine the way I explained how to do it yourself. Maybe the .apk being copied in has a different id / user or something. Did you manually copy it in and make a backup of the old? or did you click on it so it tried to install its self?

Another possibility would be file permissions if you unpacked it on a computer. I use es explorer on the tablet to zip / unzip stuff so that the permissions are kept.

If you have a backup you MAY be able to copy it back into place using ADB, other that that I'm afraid it's a complete factory reset back to unrooted and start again. Once you've done that I'd suggest following my walk through and editing the menu files yourself.

Let us know how you get on.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] downsay:
I followed exactly as you described. I downloaded it, unzipped it, made it writeable, and then copy/pasted the framework-Res.apk into the system/framework directory.

Hard reset didn't do it for me. Keeps me in a boot loop. Unfortunately I didn't backup my original.

Any ideas? Just getting to the white screen with nook over and over again.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
For those of you that want to do it manually by editing the file yourself on your tablet, here's the modified menu background file that you can use to replace the existing one using Ninjamorph
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
Really sorry, I can't help. It sounds like something has bad permissions or something but without being able to get back in you're a bit stuffed really.

Maybe somebody else can offer words of wisdom at this point but it really does sound like a full wipe is going to be called for, I think it doe sit it's self after failing to boot 8 or 9 times ? I'm going to remove the post above just in case it messes any body elses up!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] jerrykidaz:
Thanks for the image file and work Celtic. I'll give this a go once I get home to the nook.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
You're welcome, I'm just gutted that posting up my pre modified framework seems to have messed up downsay's tablet :(
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] downsay:
Out of curiosity was I supposed to check to make sure permissions were 644?

Update:

Second hard reset got it back up and running unrooted again.

We'll get it figured out. Don't worry about it, I probably messed up something along the way.

I used root explorer to do everything, including the unzipping. Maybe that was the problem?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] succulent:
Yes, all the system files are permission sensitive. You have to set the correct permissions after copying the file over. Do the full restore with the 8 boot interruptions.

I didn't get to see the upload file. PM me the file.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tgraves:
Can you re-post the image file? The .png doesn't seem to be there anymore and I'd like to try using NinjaMorph
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
Not sure. Permissions shout have been fine.

Use the image file and follow follow my previous post :) its really simple honest ;)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
Here it is again original and zipped version ;)

As and when I next get a chance (when the wife isn't around) I'm going to try editing the xml files to see if I can change the text colour instead, there are still places where text colour is very similar to background colour.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] succulent:
With all works, backup first.

You can edit the framework-res apk on your computer. You need 7zip, WinZip or WinRAR. Open it with WinRAR and browse in the archive to the PNG image. Drag the PNG image you want to a folder on your computer and edit it with a paint program. Once done, save and delete the PNG image from the WinRAR archive before dragging your saved PNG image over. Copy the APK to your NT or SDCARD, not the framework folder.

I notice that if you copy the APK from your SDCARD to your system folder with Root Explorer, it doesn’t give the user write or read permission. If you copy the APK directly from the SDCARD to the framework folder, you will end in a boot loop. ES File Explorer does give write and read permission to user. Copy the APK to system/etc. Changed the APK permission; checked read column and give user write permissions. Now you can move the apk to the framework folder.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Dassin4:
I followed the instructions and it worked perfectly for me. Thank you!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] jerrykidaz:
How long does this process take. NinjaMorph has been asking me to wait for 15 minutes now since I told it to apply the changes.

Edit: Mine never did anything but kept telling me to wait. Lucky it restarted fine and I used the method described by succulent. That worked great.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] nooknut:
I take t, one would need to be rooted in order to use this method. Correct?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tgraves:
I'm also about 15 minutes in. hopefully soon!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] zaptoons:
Thanks, CelticWebSolutions and Drewmungus!

I can't wait to give this a try this weekend! I'm in same boat- my NT is actually my wife's Christmas present, so I'm both reluctant to screw around too much with it until I completely bork it, as well as I have to sneak around to fiddle with it without her seeing it.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] residentorca:
Yes, nooknut
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Dassin4:
I had the problem where it was "working" pretty much forever, then I found a suggestion somewhere that said to make sure USB debugging was on, then it worked :)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] downsay:
After changing the permissions everything worked perfectly. Thank you.

---------- Post added at 08:13 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:10 PM ----------

When you talk about backing up, are you using a recovery of some sort?

I just wanted to make sure I didn't miss out on anything other than using titanium backup
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] succulent:
Just Titanium backup. I've done full restore a few times and Titanium Backup make restoring apps/data quicker. ;) We can't do recovery yet.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] residentorca:
Hey succulent, you've posted some insightful info here.

I sure hope a Nandroid-type solution is forthcoming as these kinds of edits make me nervous without a better backup solution :eek:

For those who have modified their BUILD.PROP files, isn't the procedure to make this menu edit essentially the same in that it's just a matter of backing up the existing file, copying the edited file to that location and then setting the permissions?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] zaptoons:
This involves a much more sensitive system file that needs some additional tools for proper handling to avoid a boot loop.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] yourbrokenoven:
Ah! Great to see it wasn't just me. I figured out you can press and highlight the text to read it, and this only happens in apps with "more" menus, so I'm not going to do anything abour it.

I'm still hoping for a custom rom in the next few months that will address all issues at once.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
Just a thought, what files are updated during the root procedure? Has anybody tried side loading the app prior to a root? Do the menus work properly then or are they messed up even on a standard NT?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] itsmee22:
CelticWebSolutions,

Thanks, your PNG file and method worked.

Any idea how to get rid of the black on black menus i.e. Titanium Backup?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] CelticWebSolutions:
Not yet but I'll be working on that myself tomorrow, I've just unbricked mine (had a slight hiccup with my tweaking and the damn thing wouldn't come on, not even a nook screen at startup!!).

Wife is pout all day tomorrow so it's my final tweaking day befor eI pack it up to give her christmas day.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] itsmee22:
Curious how you unbricked it??