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[Motorola Droid X2] Pixelation:
I have tried UOT Kitchen before, always was unlucky at having flashing errors.

My question is this... If I take a flashable theme, with permission from the creator, I should be able to use the scripts that they include for flashing? I am savvy with un-APKing zipping, signing and what not, is that all I would have to do to recreate a theme using my own images?

Thanks to everyone here!
[Motorola Droid X2] Skelente:
Yes, the script you see other themes using can be changed out with your own, as well as the content. You can also just use the UOT Kitchen script. Credit given where credit is due, of course, but the script itself (IMHO) is not something you really need permission for.

Another tip, this from firsthand experience, when you're zipping everything up getting ready to flash, make sure you're zipping the contents of the theme folder (/META-INF/ & /system/) vs zipping the theme folder.

It sounds really stupid, but it took me forever to figure out why everything I did in UOT Kitchen perfectly but everything I did, using the same damn script, just froze. But ya gotta learn somewhere, right?
[Motorola Droid X2] Kevin3328:
Remember when using the kitchen make sure u click amend scripting in the area where u load the apks... x2 uses 2. Something recovery.. if u don't click that there will be errors everytime
[Motorola Droid X2] Pixelation:
Thank you, I think I've tried UOT 5 times but never had success.

Kevin, I tried the amend scripting, it solo didn't work.

I would much rather use my own images then those offered in uot kitchen.

I'm going to try to put a theme together this weekend, I haven't modded anything since BF2 wake island air show :-)

Dee Ex Two - See Em Seven
[Motorola Droid X2] Peperm1nt:
Ok, how much do you know about themeing? Because if you are wanting to edit just the images(.pngs) you will need some info first...

You can "simply" take the framework-res.apk and systemUI.apk and go to the HDPI folder(or wherever the images are) and "drag n drop" to your desktop and edit those... OR you can take a .png that you wanna use(say one from another theme) and just drag n drop in the HDPI folder. And then, simply make a flashable .zip and your good to go.

.9s !!!

These are a PAIN if you dont know what you are doing.

If you are going to try and get into themeing, download APKManager and decompile the framework-res.apk ... go to a .9 image(i think its .png.9 or something of the like). When you load the image(say in GIMP) you will see black squares on the OUTSIDE of the image(like near the edges of the ACTUAL picture edge)... DONT TOUCH THOSE!!!! leave them there and make edits how you choose to the rest of the image. Once you are finished, just recompile(DONT SIGN AND YES! THESE ARE SYSTEM APPS!). Put in a flashable .zip and your set.

NOW Please note:

When you are doing the drag and drop method, make sure you are REPLACING an image and not ADDING more images.. catch the drift?

this is quick how to, hope it helps and good luck. let me know if you need anything else.
[Motorola Droid X2] Pixelation:
All the themes rock! I have poor eye sight (far sight) so my main concern always is status bar and the battery icon. I love being able to see the percentage, but some themes use smaller battery percentage text.

.9 seem like the stretchable area I'm beautiful widget... I understand that

Thanks Peperm1nt

Dee Ex Two - See Em Seven
[Motorola Droid X2] jsgraphicart:
I was thinking of trying out theming. That is until I looked at the crap load of images just thrown into one directory. lol. It may not be as hard as it looks but I havent looked any further than that yet. I still want to try something out though. Is there an easy way of figuring out what image does what on the phone? Like if I want to change some things, I have to know the name of the image. Well, to me, it looks like they aren't named plain and simple. Plus when they are just thrown into one directory its kinda hard to distinguish what is what. It was so much easier theming for webOS. lol
[Motorola Droid X2] Kevin3328:
Js if u really look at the framework u will see all the images in the drawable hdpi folder are really a lot of the presses..tabs. status bar icons... over scroll glow theming takes a lot of time to build straight from scratch... any .9 PNG can be edited when it is decompiled in apk manager or apk multi tool just don't edit the black patch as peppermint said or u will not compile...
[Motorola Droid X2] jsgraphicart:
Yeah, one of these days ill download the tools and play with it. I've always enjoyed theming.
[Motorola Droid X2] Pixelation:
I'm just trying to figure out the script to flash, is it the one in the google folder?

Dee Ex Two - See Em Seven
[Motorola Droid X2] SlimMan:
@js I know what you are saying about the desire to do it but the system isn't really what I would say themer friendly! Admittedly I am not the sharpest tool in the shade when it comes to some things (like the Android OS), so I would imagine that plays a big role in my intimidation of the whole thing.

What got me was the De-Compiling and Recompiling of everything just to change something. Not to mention the signatures and etc... perhaps one day someone will write a piece of software (be it windows based or Android in a shell on a PC) that will make it all pretty simple on that part. Till then I will prob. just enjoy and appreciate the work of others.

GL, Slim!
[Motorola Droid X2] jsgraphicart:
Yeah, I agree about the decompiling and recompiling thing. When I had a webOS phone I created my own theme just by simply replacing the images and restarting the phone. With android, it seems you have to take the whole framework out, theme it and recompile the package file and flash it to the phone. Just seems a bit overwhelming.
[Motorola Droid X2] Peperm1nt:
It's not that bad if you are just changing the images... Just timely. I suggest gimp to do the work. Another tip, some of the images are indexed. In gimp change from indexed to rgb...back to indexed, then rgb. Reason being that you are now able to add any color and doing it twice clears the pixelation...

What gets hard is smali editing and .xml editing. Let me know if you need help there.

Tapin' the Talk on the xSquared
[Motorola Droid X2] deedscreen:
Send a PM to "KTT16" on the Motorola Photon Forums, he is a great themer, let him know what you need help with, tell him you are running stock on the X2, he'll ask you for whatever files he needs, and he will help out.

By the way, if you are at all interested in a signature image, I can create one for you, just PM me, and I'll get on it.
[Motorola Droid X2] Pixelation:
I can batch process in PS.....and what is this bout clearing the pixelation...lol

Thanks I'll check it out :)

Dee Ex Two - See Em Seven
[Motorola Droid X2] Peperm1nt:
When you find a indexed image going to rgb pixelates the image...going back to indexed and then to rgb fixes this.

Tapin' the Talk on the xSquared
[Motorola Droid X2] Pixelation:
:) I was p playing with you, all my online gaming and forum names have always had pixel, pixelated, pixelation, pixelized or any variety of pixel :)

Edit: swyponese

Dee Ex Two - See Em Seven
[Motorola Droid X2] rbellis:
I am trying this out for the 1st time. My main goal is to create a transparent status bar for CM7. Will this make that "patch" I need for this?
[Motorola Droid X2] ashclepdia:
i seem to be a complete idiot lol

im sitting here trying to use apk manager and have no clue how to go about it

i cant get it to friggin pull files, i have no clue what im doing tho lol

i been trying to find info on how to use it with the x2 but cant find jack that is actually useful.

time to go eat, clear my head, and get back to researching, im probably just missing something extremely easy i knoow, but hey, i havent had a working computer in years so yea, im kinda learning on the fly here, lol
[Motorola Droid X2] Peperm1nt:
Lol @ash

In apkm select the apk you want, then decompile... Make edits, recompile.

Tapin' the Talk on the xSquared
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] okmijnlp:
Is there any way to remove the little welcome message 'Welcome to hyperdroid android beta. Thank you for turning me on.'? I can't use a custom boot animation because this message ruins it. Thanks. P.s. I've removed the boot animation to no avail.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beaver2233:
Edit: Scratch that, file doesn't exist...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksantoshh:
Bro, Its got nothing to do with Boot Animation. Its the Poweron Sound file in the /system/etc. Delete or rename that file and you wont have the startup sound.

I am attaching the original Samsung Startup sound if you would like to replace with root explorer.

Hope this helps, press the thanks button :-p
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Newbie Android:
When i plug my skyrocket into my computer it cant find the drivers so i cant transfer files? Is there a site i can go to to get the proper drivers?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jslanger:
There are links posted elsewhere for just the drivers, but I don't have the link myself. I just installed the Samsung Kies software which completes the drivers as well.

http://www.samsung.com/us/kies
[LG Optimus 2x] SP1996AC:
Probably a BSOD, do you have any CPU settings enabled like screen off frequencies? If so then that might be the problem, try to change the max frequency for screen on to 503 Mhz.

Or you can turn up the voltages for the lower CPU frequencies. Because that might be the problem too. The voltages might be too low to wake up your device.
[LG Optimus 2x] lopiop:
im using the default configuration, i didnt change anything after i flashed, since i see in your signature u r using the same rom and kernel, do you experience this issue from time to time, also how do you change the cpu clock speeds, and will that damage the phone?
[LG Optimus 2x] lopiop:
alrite this is what i did that made the phone hang, i was downloading data for the game modern combat 3 on wifi, and then i press the home key and lock the screen and afterwards the keylights are backlit but the screen is lit but black, tried changing clock speeds to 503 mhz but didnt work
[LG Optimus 2x] SP1996AC:
OK, I didn't notice this problem before on my device. But you can try to turn up the voltages or clock speeds with either SetCPU or Antutu CPUMaster. I'm using SetCPU, I'm not sure if it works on antutu.
[LG Optimus 2x] lopiop:
i think the problem is cm7 temasek kang itself, not with the kernel, yesterday i flashed just the rom and still got the the hang doing the same thing, can i actually use the kernel with cm7 stable
[LG Optimus 2x] TommyToms:
I had the same problem.

I flashed the 32m ramhack powersave version and got the black screen thing and also the phone kept rebooting randomly.

When I eventually got to recovery mode I flashed the normal base powersave version instead, slightly less problematic but still crashed and stuff.

So then I flashed the normal base kernel. It's been about 2 days and everything seems to be good. A shame though, I would of preferred the battery saving aspects of the former.

Edit: A few crashes/reboots but only while playing like high spec games.
[LG Optimus 2x] SP1996AC:
Yeah the power save version uses lower voltages than the normal version and some devices unfortunately can't handle it... :(
[LG Optimus 2x] TommyToms:
Ah I see.

Is there like a list of voltages for the power save kernel?

I was thinking maybe I could adjust the voltages via SetCpu for voltages inbetween powersave and normal or something.
[LG Optimus 2x] SP1996AC:
Sure no problem...

This is the list from the latest powersave version:

1408 Mhz ----> 1200 mV

1216 Mhz ----> 1100 mV

1100 Mhz ----> 1000 mV

1015 Mhz ----> 950 mV

816 Mhz ----> 850 mV

655 Mhz ----> 820 mV

503 Mhz ----> 800 mV

216 Mhz ----> 790 mV

These are the stock voltages, i haven't undervolted at all
[LG Optimus 2x] TommyToms:
Ah cheers!

Seems to be the same voltages for the normal KANG kernel too!

Just before I read this I had already changed voltages to be inbetween what was already the default for me and the voltages I found here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=21504143&postcount=443

I think I'll keep it this way untill something goes wrong he he. :rolleyes:

Edit: Something went wrong lol. Back to normal voltages I go!
[Xoom General] JoTeC:
Some of you may already know this about the new ICS and the hidden Easter Egg, but if you dont, Nandroid!!!

Go into settings, about tablet, then repeatedly tap the android version. An android will pop up on the screen. Then continue to longpress the android.
[Xoom General] LynnL:
Looks like Space Invaders :)
[Xoom General] ahmed007:
Sweet
[Xoom General] willysp:
Awesome - thanks!
[Xoom General] DroidVPN:
Cool thanks for sharing!
[Xoom General] marcodj:
Cool. Thank you

Gesendet von meinem GT-I9000 mit Tapatalk
[Xoom General] mitchblue:
Cool, thank you.
[Xoom General] asmanthebell:
ROFL Loving it!
[Xoom General] Lothaen:
Is it the 8-bit style Android in the style of an Ice Cream Sandwich?
[Xoom General] bobenhaus:
IF you swiping your screen left/right when the ICS Android is visible then you will see flying Androids! :) errr??
[Xoom General] fatman42:
Needs a soundtrack :-)
[Xoom General] Saintfyre:
Based off the replies I'm assuming it's the Nyan Cat w/ Androids overlayed?
[Xoom General] Ghost-of-the-Sun:
Ahahaha this is awesome!

Google always puts funny easter eggs in its products and I love it :)
[Xoom General] thiagopferreira:
And Froyo?

Very nice!

But I have a Galaxy S I9000B with Froyo and I would like to know if this version has an Easter Egg too.

:confused:
[Xoom General] Lothaen:
AOSP style devices had it from gingerbread upwards.

So probably not with froyo
[Xoom General] |shaneo|:
very cool thanks for the heads up I would have never found that :)
[HTC Sensation] paulos328:
Hello i tried installing Virtuous Inquisition v2.0.1 :: AOSP-Experience Senseless ICS (4.0.3) rom last night. The phone now wont start, boots then restarts. When i go into HBOOT manually it says.

***** LOCKED *****

PYRAMID PVT SHIP S-OFF RL

HBOOT - 1.23.0000

RADIO - 10.14.9035.01_M

eMMC-BOOT

(DATE)

HBOOT

Model ID INCORRECT

Update Fail

Press <POWER> to reboot

i do that, and it keeps loop.

Please can someone help me.

Thanks
[HTC Sensation] sshede:
Try this:

Take out your sd card, put in in your computer, delete the PG58IMG and put the SD back in the phone. Boot the bootloader, reboot into recovery, then install the rom of your choice.

Might not work, but it's worked before.
[HTC Sensation] d3vilskid:
Your pg58img firmware didn't flash properly. In other words all your partition didn't get flash. That's why the Rom won't boot.
[HTC Sensation] Rumball:
Firmware not flashing because you did not Super CID your phone. Search in the this forum on the instructions. After doing this, reflash the firmware and then the ROM again
[HTC Sensation] deadeye0908:
Yup had the exact same problem. Delete the pg58img off sd card from computer. Restore nandroid backup. Follow the install supercid instructions http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1192300 (step 4) reflash flash firmware from hboot, flash rom, rejoice!
[HTC Sensation] paulos328:
Hello again

Thanks for the replies guys. I took out my micro sd card and i erased the .zip file. I loaded a new rom and now its working just fine. My question is do i have to do the CID thingy? ?

Also, what exactly was my problem? :(
[HTC Sensation] plasmafire:
The firmware was trying to flash automatically(because it found the PG58IMG), but your phone did not allow it (no SuperCID).

Deleting the file put it out of the loop. I would do the supercid and upgrade the firmware to move to an ICS rom. Happy flashing!
[HTC Sensation] paulos328:
So

So if i do the CID i will be able to install any ICS rom?
[HTC Sensation] EricDET:
Yes... SuperCID then flash the PG58 and you're good to go...
[HTC Sensation] sshede:
And remember, if you have a PG58IMG file on your sd card, you won't be able to use the bootloader at all without first removing the file.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Dr.Neo:
Hi friends,

I am writing to you because in the Spanish forums on telephony have not had much luck, apparently no one knows my problem and nobody has experienced before, the question is that since I opened the bootloader I have not had any problems, and loaded the roms kernels without problem until a few days ago, after a long season with a MIUI rom I was going pretty well but appear new roms for the Neo because I wanted to try and I found that when trying to boot into fastboot light load make a flashing blue micro automatically if I pressed the button off the phone starts the rom and I can not enter bootloader mode, I tried to wipe and reinstall the same data again rom but no way the bootloader will not boot. :confused:

I hope you can help me, greetings and thanks :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] abhinav333:
hi even i had the same problem . I dint figure out any solution so i flashed my stock rom and only few custom roms are able to boot on my phone !....I would suggest you to flash back the stock rom or use flash tool and try the custom roms once again !
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Dr.Neo:
Thanks a lot,

but, after flash stock rom, can you acces to bootloader or reflash with flashtool another kernels????? I can install roms with CMW but not kernels with bootloader.....
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] chizzwhizz:
After manually checking for and downloading the new update something weird happens when the firmware update is actually being installed.

It starts the installation process as usual but about 1/3 of the way through the image changes to an android bot laying down with a red caution symbol glowing. After a few minutes, the tablet reboots and i get a message saying update failed to install.

How do I get passed this?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] ravizzle:
Same thing happen to me. Now when check for update, show no update available.

Idk how to upgrade now and still keep root bc ota rootkeeper won't work of I side load it to the tab

Sent from my Galaxy S2
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] slaia:
Reset?

I'm not an expert. But probably doing reset and check again for update could help. I have just updated to 9.4.2.11 without any problem.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] speed4134:
same here, i get a message saying an update is available, then a short message checking for file integrity, the system rebooting,,,,,,the dead android dude!

---------- Post added at 06:44 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:05 PM ----------

I just factory rest the damn thing, unrooted, wiped everything clean..............and still can't get it to update

So, I'm stuck with the horizontal banding ( even with all the gpu rendering disabled, transitions disabled, setcpu in performance mod etc....very noticeable) very bad wifi performance....30 feet from my router, unusable, can't imagine next summer trying to use it in the back yard!

....tomorrow is the end of my 30 day return period, was hoping i could get it to work before coming to this.

Have to say that this tablet has to be the worst poisoned christmas gift I ever gave the old lady!!!!

What do I do????????? flip a coin and try to change it, get maybe lucky and get a ''usable'' one, or go full metrosexual and get the wife an Ipad?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] osbrook:
.11 worse

.11 has made things worse for me. .07 was fine but now I get flashing lines. Still not ad hoc wifi:mad:
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] MrGiggles:
Same issue here.. oh well...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] nutsngum:
What ROM/Kernel setup are you guys using that you've found good stability with?

Any suggestions?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] polish_pat:
Skyrocketeer with flashed Rogers radio. It's very stable, had some slight issues with the sms timestamps but with the help of SMStimeFIX from market it was solved. Also still looking to confirm if i obtain full 50mb/s LTE speed but until i got back to that spot where i always get it, i wont be able to confirm. It's a nice looking rom, snappy, fast, good battery life, nice emprovements
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] rovertjoey:
Stock rom. I've tried a few, including sky ics. Good rom but I still found stock more stable. But it depends on the user. I don't like to search as to why apps keep fcing. I just like it when I use my phone that it runs smooth. The rogers stock is good. Isn't any bloaware to slow it down. However I did get rid of the odd app and widget installed
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] wali01x:
hey i tried some roms soo far. the roms/kernel id recommend is either use sky/tpc/rocketeer. kernel wise id stay away from all kernels i mean no offence given devs work hard on kernel, but unless you rogers folks wanted a heat around camera area for everyday i know i don't use stock rogers kernel its snappy @ 1.5ghz + no lags + my heavy day to day lasts me 1 and 1/2 day with full use of wifi,bt,browser and games. just remove all the bloatware and u'll see.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] djtyres:
Stock Rom for me, although I have started to play with Go Launcher to spice things up a little bit. Waiting for ICS my self.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] the k9:
Stock here as well, tried a few roms, and aside from over or under clocking, which I love, there haven't been any roms or kernels as stable so far. If someone comes up with a great way to 'clock let's hear it!

Also, anyone have a comprehensive list of bloatware on the 727R yet? That's a post I'd love to see!

Sent from my rooted SGS2 I727R using stock, until something really stable comes along
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Kyzher:
Runnin skyicecream sandwich jugglin between faux and romracer kernel cant get the romracer to deepsleep. Running faux at 1.5gz max with setcpu and its pretty stable no fc or sod. Smooth and fast.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] pussycrusher:
rooted using sky ICS

tried cyanogen for a bit and liked it but sky ics just looks so nice. i get a few fcs but it doesnt bother me cause it reboots the program real fast

really good battery life on it, 15 hours at 70%
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Emperor Jon:
I've been on Android for over 3 years now..

Had so many different roms on my devices. This one I've used syrocketeer, was nice, smooth stable, not many issues.

Tried SkyIce Cream Sandwich rom. Was pissed off it was just a theme of ICS on 2.3.6 IMO name is very misleading, but whatever, to each his own. Was a good stable rom if you want a nice overlay of ICS, had a few issues with FC but the dev gives pretty good instructions on how to fix it.

Most of these I was running primarily until Cyanogen team came out with something stable enough to put on my phone. As I've always found CM to be the best thing you can run.

Newest build for me has been very stable - running Da_G kernel. No issues except for the call issue posted in their forums. I think that was supposed to be fixed in the latest update, however I haven't gotten around to updating. Turning GPS on seemed to work to fix the issue tho. I would never change to anything else (unless real ICS rom came out, then would only stay on that till CM9 came out with a stable enough release)

I have confirmed in most parts of Toronto where reception is decent enough I'm getting an average of 30+ mbps. Closer to downtown core upwards of 40mbps and in a few cases up to 58mbps. So LTE works great on that ROM as well.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] 32dave:
i use Bouyancy 1.2.1 with 360 launcher doesn't change baseband smooth and snappy
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] kr3g3r:
SkyRocket ICS 2.9.2

faux kernal 2.6.35.14......

max clock 1.296

min clock 384

screen off max 384

screen off min 192

runs smooth as hell, great battery life

not one issue with ANYTHING!!!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] silverdagon:
Sky is very smooth and nice with faux kernel no problems here
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] erykz:
TPC V3 with Da_g 0.43 kernel. No issue at all. Very stable.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Qawnman:
using sky ics for a few weeks now with no fc's on either faux or rom racer kernal.