[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dully79:
[Guide/Tutorial][17/06/12]How to make "basic" theming mods + .9.png tutorial

If you find this guide useful then please rate the thread, i dont really care about thanks, thanks.:)

Give a man a theme and he can flash for a day.

Teach him how to theme and he can flash for a lifetime.

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"What's in the guide??"

*Basic image editing

*Using UOT kitchen to change the battery icons

*Popular image names and locations (GB)

*How to decompile using apk manager4.9

*Editing .9.png's

*How to use the universal theme.zip

*Create a batch Hue action in Photoshop

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I'm constantly seeing people asking for minor changes to ROMS, Themes, Mods etc, so i thought i would post this to let the talented people get on with what they do best, and the rest of us can stop harassing them for simple tasks that we are all capable of ourselves.

"Could you add these images from this ROM to your theme?"

"Can you change the colour of the battery in you ROM?"

"Is it possible to have different status bar colour?"

Well people it's time to learn some basic theming/modding/skinning, whatever you want to call it.

Lets say you want to change the colour of the battery....​

What you will need:

*7zip (free)

*Greenfish icon editor pro (free/ windows) or *Gimp (free/ all platforms)

Getting going:

[1]

Firstly open up your ROM/Theme/Mod with 7zip and navigate to:

"system/framework/"

*If framework-res is a folder drog and drop to a suitable location on you pc.

*If it is an .apk then extract it and unpack.

TIP: drag it out then right click>7zip>extract to "***".

TIP2: Create a copy of this folder in case you make a mistake!!

[2]

Now navigate into "framework-res/res/drawable-hdpi/", in here are your battery images named "stat_sys_battery.png"

[3]

Open up Greenfish/Gimp, and drag across the images you want to adjust.

[Greenfish] Select Filter>Hue/Saturation

In the window that opens adjust the properties until you get your desired effect.

Save and close.

[Gimp] Select tools>color tools>hue-saturation

In the window that opens adjust the properties until you get your desired effect.

Save and close.

[4]

When your happy with the results open up(NOT EXTRACT!!) the Universal Theme template provided using 7zip and navigate to-

"system/framework/framework-res.apk/res/drawable-hdpi/"

Drag the newly adjusted images across.

Close and place on your sdcard to be flashed from recovery.

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Now lets say you want to use different signal images....​

[1]

Get the ROM/Theme/Mod containing the images you want to use

Open up with 7zip and navigate to "system/app/systemUI.apk/res/drawable-hdpi/"

in here are your signal images named "stat_sys_signal.png"

[2]

Open up(NOT EXTRACT!!) the Universal Theme template provided using 7zip and navigate to-

"system/app/systemUI.apk/res/drawable-hdpi/"

Drag the desired images across.

Close and place on your sdcard to be flashed from recovery.

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That was easy was'nt it!:)

There are free software programs out there like gimp that let you batch process images but im not aware of the methods used, if anyone is then please post.

Please feel free to post helpful info and ask questions about locations of images or anything else related. Hopefully myself or anyone else in the know will help.

If you want to go deeper into theme-ing here is an amazing guide:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=916814

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>>> Universal Theme empty template <<<

Thanks to JR soft and also Intronauta for universal theme http://www.htcmania.com/showthread.php?t=258333 .Based on the "VillainTheme system" tool by VillainTeam. More info etc, head to www.villainrom.co.uk.