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[Galaxy S II General] GaboWinter:
Oh, well, i don't think so. The icons are without effects, if you have yet the .png just open it with GIMP and then give the green color normally...and then follow the tuto

If you don't have the .png then extract it following the tutos ;)

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[Galaxy S II General] shadowblade330:
yay success on my first mod lol

but for changing the icons I just dropped the png file into the framework

drawable-hdpi then it works
[Galaxy S II General] GaboWinter:
Yes with images (png usually) works in that way :)

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[Galaxy S II General] kroz:
hi gabo, i am now starting to make my own theme,

actually theme for my girlfriend's s2,

i want to make a girly theme for her, :)

at the moment i can manage to change background using your flashable zips,

this time i want to move to the next level, to change some icons / png's :D

now i want to learn how to use the universal flashing tool

i can't understand it clearly,

please guide me and correct me if i am wrong from these steps

1. put my modified .png on the morph folder with their correct path as stated in OP (it is clear to me)

2. regarding meta-inf folder, i manage to change the ui_print part (clear also)

3. mods in mod.config - maybe i will leave it as it is

4. [Question1] so now for the part that is not clear for me (sorry for being noob), will i put the original .apk (that i grab from the rom version) somewhere on this universal flasher tool folder? (for example, i will get systemUi.apk in rr 2.2, where will i put it?)

5. [Question2] is there no one click tool included in the universal flasher tool folder to create my flashable zip? if there isn't then how can i make it flashable through recovery?

i do hope you can help me with these gabo... thanks,
[Galaxy S II General] GaboWinter:
Hi mate, good initiative ;)

Question 1.- All of us we're noobs at the beggining mate, don't worry. No, you don't need manage apk's with UFT, that's the advantage; When you create the folders path you are telling yet in what apk be "morphed" the .png

Question 2.- No, it's not included, for create your flashable .zip you just need select the next files:

- META-INF folder - MORPH folder - tools folder - XTRAS folder - MOD.config file

then right clic on your mouse and select the right option to make a .zip file (I'm on linux so i have an option called "Create Archive" on my dropdown menu, sorry but honestly i don't remember how names that option on Windows :o) if you are on Windows with WinRar must be possible.

Hope this helps, any other doubt i'm here ;)

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[Galaxy S II General] kroz:
wow! :eek: is it that easy to make flashable zip using this tool? i am surprise,

so i will just compress into zip these folders? how about signing zip (actually i don't know what it is, hahaha)?? is it necessary?

i will just finish editing some png and i will try, and i already have a backup in case :) thanks for the help, will let you know once i am done, :) thanks...
[Galaxy S II General] GaboWinter:
Hehehe well, the scripts inside the folders make the magic that's because you only need make a zip with all of them :)

No, it's not necessary sign the zip.

Ok, let me know how going everything, good luck

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[Galaxy S II General] kroz:
ok, i am almost done changing the colors of the icons, whew... themers really need a lot of patience :( i salute them ;)

i am now running rr 2.2, so i can use this when west released new version right?
[Galaxy S II General] GaboWinter:
Really they have it!

Yes, you can

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[Galaxy S II General] kroz:
this is it!!!

backing up again and gonna test it what it goes

hope everything works well, wish me luck mate :)

gonna post some pictures here when it is successfully applied on my phone, :D

thanks again gabo,

themed for now just to test

systemui.apk

contacts.apk

framework-res.apk
[Galaxy S II General] GaboWinter:
Of course mate, good luck ;)

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[Galaxy S II General] kroz:
time check, its almost 12:30 am here and still i can't make it work :confused:

i always got installation aborted (status 6) :(

looking through the net it seems that it is syntax error on updater-script

i think i will leave it for the moment and will take my sleep :o
[Galaxy S II General] GaboWinter:
It's weird, you change something on the script?

Ok, mate. Have a good night

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[Galaxy S II General] kroz:
gabo i am 50% happy, i was able to flash it successfully without error on recovery, it booted up, i saw my icons on status bar changed and it made me smile, but after that all my apps fc, hahaha, i can't open anything including apex launcher, i can only see my status bar with pink icons of signal, battery and wifj, but the rest... fc, well the good thing is i have a nandroid, hahaha, i think im gonna sleep now with my 50% happiness, i will find what is wrong tomorrow morning while taking my cup of coffee, tnx gabo for the guidance, goodnyt mate, this time its for real i am off to bed :) tnx again,

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[Galaxy S II General] GaboWinter:
Don't worry mate, take a rest and tomorrow be sure that you take the files from the version of the ROM that you want install and fix permissions after flashing the mod ;)

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[Galaxy S II General] kroz:
here it is!!!

well please see below gabo,

i didn't manage to get the universal flasher working, it always has an error,

well it works when i remove folder of framework-res.apk on morphed, so i think that the framework-res.apk folder causes fc on all my apps and i can't find what is wrong with it,

moving forward, i left universal flasher for a while and used one of your mods as a base and i succesfully flashed it to my phone, i have here the sample image and the bugs encircled which i cant find anymore where to edit :(

1. the date in the notification bar doesn't change and i don't know where to change it, i think i need to edit the code of font color? i dont know where :confused:

2. the toggles are still in blue, :( even if i changed the image color in this path of SystemUI.apk (/res/drawable/btn_on.png)

3. same as number 1

4. i am not sure if i change this phone image, the phone image at the upper left will also change, if it happened it will be all pink when i select the dial tab :p

5. i only find 1 menu icon and i changed it's color, but it doesn't changed here :confused:

6. same as number 1

7. is it code also? as what i remember i changed all the blue icons into pink, :(

8. i found 1 settings icon and changed it, i don't know if this is separate image located somewhere,

9. well i think this is a bonus only and may be not my priority at the moment, these are white icons and its very difficult to find on a white background, lol,

edit - number 8 and 9 - found it, it is in settings.apk :)

and that is my feedback during my first theme, i can't remember how many times did i recharge my phone cause i also can't remember how many times i enter recovery to flash - abort - reflash - restore - bootloop - forceclose - reflash - restore, hahaha, well that is part of the testing stage, and i'm glad i made it, (not just succesful)

thanks Gabo - for the complete guide

cyberboob - toggle icons

bajee - lockscreen
[Galaxy S II General] GaboWinter:
1.- Yes, that's via code the "problem" it's, i don't know exactly where is the file, what i know it's that must be on the SystemUI.apk, probably paths: /res/drawable/***.xml or /res/values/***.xml

2.- That's very very weird, are you sure that change the file? Don't have some name mistake or something like that? (Also, remember fix permissions after flash the mod)

3.- Same that in no. 1 :D

4.- What change from the image?

5.- You change it from where? I think it's on the Settings.apk

6.- Same that in no. 1 :D

7.- No, i don't think so, from which apk did you change that?

Hehehe yeah, when you are modding you need have very near your charger :D

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[Galaxy S II General] kroz:
thanks, ok i will try to find that code if i can, :) maybe on weekend,

also review all the folders maybe i missed something and will start editing also some apks for the theme progress,

thanks gabo
[Galaxy S II General] GaboWinter:
You're welcome mate, i'm searching too :D

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[Galaxy S II General] Kadhim7:
Thanks for your themeing information

But I try to changed my notification bar blue dark wallpaper to another one

Every time I replease my new systemui.apk with the older one and restart my notification bar is gone:confused::confused:
[Galaxy S II General] shadowblade330:
cool information thanks for those info, maybe I can play around with this a bit later :D
[Galaxy S II General] kroz:
did you use one of Gabo's mod as a base and edit it? Gabo's mod are based on resurrection remix rom, if you changed it and flashed it to different rom, i think it is what causes the fc

yes mate, it is fun to play around with theming and modding, :) patience is a must :D
[Galaxy S II General] GaboWinter:
As kroz says mate, if you are using another ROM different than Resurrection you must follow the [Technical Steps] and other detail, i'm not have a tutorial here for change that background. :)

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[Galaxy S II General] tauhubusuk:
Hi,

Im new here and i like ur work.

My question is can i do this to stock ICS? Btw Im using SGS2 i9100G.
[Galaxy S II General] GaboWinter:
On the stock? Well, you must be sure that it's rooted and try ;) But my recommendation it's do it on a Custom ROM, on my signature you can find the indexes of bot forums, there you can check all the ROMS.

It's a little more complicated with odexed ROMS, take a look here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=26992547&postcount=41

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[Galaxy S II General] a0007:
thanks pro

very nice job
[Galaxy S II General] GaboWinter:
I'm glad that like it :)

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[Galaxy S II General] kroz:
hey gabo, i am working on new theme now and still for rr, :)

this time it is for my use, but i think it will take some time to finish,

thanks again for this guide gabo
[Galaxy S II General] Quipper2008:
@GaboWinter,

very nice Tutorial.

Please, can you share the nice Wallpaper from Phone Dialer (the right one) :)
[Galaxy S II General] GaboWinter:
Ey, that's great mate!!! I'm glad of being helpful :)

Thanks mate, sure here it is: http://halfingr.deviantart.com/art/Zuniverse-Wallpaper-274864406
[Galaxy S II General] Kadhim7:
Thanks but I think it is easy to change the background. Its only a png image:)
[Galaxy S II General] shadowblade330:
would you happen to have the wave tutorial for lockscreen or is that one more complicated?
[Galaxy S II General] kroz:
why can't i edit settings.apk? :(

edit: also romcontrol.apk :(

i mean i cant drag icons inside this apk, i cant extract also using 7zip,
[Galaxy S II General] shadowblade330:
ok so i was playing around a bit and got the wave thing to work kinda still testing it. But I wanted to know about using the universal flasher. So basically I just put in all the modded stuff into the framework-res then i place that in morph/system/framework. then I just rezip it to make it flashable?
[Galaxy S II General] GaboWinter:
Maybe the apk's are modified after build it in that case you need decompile it ;)

Yeah, but when you do the wave lockscreen, you modify some code or i'm wrong? And the UFT doesn't work if you modify code, as i said on the OP works well just with images :) But, if you wanna try you need put all your stuff in that pat and zip it, with all the other files included as i describe on the OP :)
[Galaxy S II General] shadowblade330:
hmm no code modified i think its becuz in rootbox it is installed as default I just changed the png files.
[Galaxy S II General] GaboWinter:
That's right, i forgot that you are using it Root Box, even when i see your wall on the screenshoots, sorry mate; Yeah you only need create the path inside of system folder on the UFT and put there the .png's
[Galaxy S II General] shadowblade330:
not sure if this works for pngs in drawable-hdpi I tried to do as ur steps i made a folder to the path /system/framework/framework-res.apk/res/drawable-hdpi i get an installation abort.

Edit: Nvmnd got it to work lol. I extracted UFT and tried to rezip that instead i just placed it in the original UFT and change the name of it and flashed that and worked lol
[Galaxy S II General] GaboWinter:
At least it's working now :D

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[Galaxy S II General] Pingopete:
Doesn't work for me D:

After trying to flash this mod to change the system background I got not only a bootloop but a whole manner of other error messages like 'don't start applications' and a mess of strange symbols jumbled in the text. It's not just this mod, vreestyle's background mod, bajees and gabowinter's mods all completely screw up my I9100 when i flash the zips! (only fixed with nandroid restore) The frustrating thing is i had gobowinter's background working on rr 1.7 :( I've looked everywhere and apparently no one else on earth has had this issue. The weird thing is recently I changed the theme with theme changer and the system menu background was changed, while running!?

I am new here so if I've posted this is the wrong place or something please don't go crazy :P

Honestly any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated! :)

P. S. I have a feeling it's got something to do with framework-res.apk as this where it's all at.

Running resurrection remix 2.4
[Galaxy S II General] GaboWinter:
Some points mate:

1.- None problem if you post this here, but the right thread it's this one: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=27542017

2.- That errors indicate that you flash some mod of another version on v2.4, be sure of download the right files

3.- Mostly the bajee's lockscreens are not compatible with v2.4 of RR, he releases the new ones tomorrow

4.- If you flash some of the bajee's lockscreens you loose the background of the SystemUI, i mention that on the Mirrors Index of RR

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[Galaxy S II General] Pingopete:
Ok thanks for the link :) could you re-word point 2? I didn't really understand, sorry
[Galaxy S II General] shadowblade330:
Ok I finished most of the colors I might do orange later.

enjoy hopefully they work well

posted in wrong spot sorry

Dlete if you need to
[Galaxy S II General] GaboWinter:
Sure and sorry, i mean that the error about the strange symbols usually happens when you flash some different framework, that's because you need that the mods are designed for the version that you have installed :)

We can't delete posts mate, you just can delete the content of your post if you want ;)

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[Galaxy S II General] Pingopete:
Ahh I see ok, Cheers

Yeah just flashed your latest system ui mod, via the link you posted: didn't actually change system menu background but no crash, Yay! :P hmm really don't get why the theme chooser can but the zips don't :/
[Galaxy S II General] GaboWinter:
You must do fix permissions after flash the mod, here are working well :)

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[Galaxy S II General] cyberboob:
Don't worry, you're not the only one having problems with number 2. I am on AOSP rom and having same issues with it. Are you using UFT by any chance?
[Galaxy S II General] Pingopete:
Gobo

Just got the first zip to successfully update system background, absolutly extatic :D though it's a horribly stretched photo of optimus prime :P I think basicly you were right; I just needed to find zips designed specifically for 2.4, thanks for your help, and patience anyway :) maximum kudos dude!

Btw that link you sent me, it says the files are for 2.4 but the actual zips were titled 2.2, hence they were failing to change my system ui :)
[Galaxy S II General] kroz:
really? i thought i changed the wrong png so i stopped looking for that toggle switch, but my path for that icon is correct?

i stop using UFT, using UFT with framework-res.apk folder crashes my phone, when i delete the folder it works on SystemUI.apk and Contacts.apk folder,

thanks again for your beautiful glow toggles cyberboob, :D
[Galaxy S II General] cyberboob:
ha...I like eye-candy too, so I will make a new set in different colors when can figure this out. I've changed some toggle designs to be a little more simple, but yah - this btn_on.png is a pain in the ass. I'm continue my search for solution via google lol. Mod on everyone!
[Galaxy S II General] kroz:
yah, actually i stop making that mod for my girlfriend, i will make first on my own then when i have the set of icons i want i will then change its colors, :)

when you have a solution for that btn_on, can you share it with me? :D
[Galaxy S II General] GaboWinter:
You're welcome mate :)

Btw, exactly which link? Need to check that... :D

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[Galaxy S II General] Pingopete:
Page 9 of this thread, and here's the link :

http://xdaforums.com/show...php?p=27542017

Also cheers for giving me my first 'thanks' on the meter XD

I think I may be wrong though, can't really remember what link I went through after that :/ sorry
[Galaxy S II General] kroz:
your not the only one mate, gabo gave me also my first thanks on my meter, hahaha,
[Galaxy S II General] Pingopete:
Your comment was what made me realize I had 1! :D
[Galaxy S II General] LegendZenify:
Umm, I tried creating a mod using UFT (modifying framework-res.apk).

It originally worked fine, but flashing bajee's lockscreen over it resulted in a bootloop.

It's pretty weird, I tried flashing it with one of gabo's mods and it seemed fine.

I think it is a problem with UFT or perhaps I did something wrong?

Could anyone help me diagnose the problem?

I did edit some xmls, could that be the cause?
[Galaxy S II General] GaboWinter:
Yes, as i mention on the OP the UFT it's not recommended to push .xml changes, just images, try doing it with the 'decompile' way
[Galaxy S II General] LegendZenify:
Thanks, no wonder I couldn't get it to work.

I could do it the decompile way, but then I guess it wouldn't be compatible with other mods (and almost every mod uses the framework-res.apk)
[Galaxy S II General] GaboWinter:
Yes, sadly that's true, the mods do it with that option must be re do it each new release, that's how i'm doing it

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[Galaxy S II General] shadowblade330:
not sure if I am the only having a problem, it is driving me crazy but whenever i try ti zip extract or decompile the framework-res.apk I get some .9.png errors.

I tried doing the same thing for rootbox but i have no problem decompiling or extracting the framework-res.apk

I dont know if its a download error but when i install RR everything works fine.
[Galaxy S II General] Frozenthunder:
Not sure if this has already been asked, but does it work if you just copy the contacts and framework APKs to your PC, open them with winrar, change the pictures (like you described in drag and drop method) and then just overwrite the APKs on system with some file explorer like ES?

Edit: Just tried it out and it worked like a charm. After I overwrote the file the messaging and contacts shortcut disappeared from my dock but I just placed it back there. Easiest method ever! I haven't tried it out for the framework.res.apk though. Only with contacts.apk

Why is this not included in your tutorial yet?
[Galaxy S II General] GaboWinter:
Send a PM to raja.7k he manage some things with that files recently ;)

Because it's not the ideal way, Contacts.apk just cause that effect what you mention with the shortcuts but push the framework.res.apk cause messages of error and you must reboot the device, but many people can fall in panic without reason, some time ago i talk about that with other modders and my descition was not include this method ;)

But you can do it in this way if you want

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[Galaxy S II General] bagadj:
Hi! How can i set this effect to my lockscreen?

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[Galaxy S II General] GaboWinter:
You need ask to @bajee11 that mod it's made by him, here you have his thread :)
[Galaxy S II General] prashamsahni:
I'm getting an error when i compile after replacing an image...plzz help!!:(
[Galaxy S II General] GaboWinter:
Specificly what error? Could you post a screenshot please
[Galaxy S II General] apollopayne:
Hi all I tried to follow the tutorials of customizing the framework-res.apk and made a flash zip file to test but keeps saying aborted? I would be be very great full if someone could take a look and tell me what ive done wrong? ive changed the drawable-nodpi/ background_holo_dark.png to a custom image. Its a test 4 me but I want to find out what I have done wrong.

http://db.tt/mViptIm5
[Galaxy S II General] GaboWinter:
Sure, your error it's that you compress the folder named 'test' with the other 2 folders inside, what you need select to compress on the .zip it's the META-INF and system folders. I'll do it for you, take a look on the attach and compare it with your file :)
[Galaxy S II General] apollopayne:
thank you i see what i have done wrong. Ive flash it and hopping for the best lol as couldn't get apktool to work as kept giving me errors when recompiling. dang its boot looping. I used apktool manager
[Galaxy S II General] GaboWinter:
I'm not use apktool since i'm on Linux but usually "googling" the specific error you can find some help, sometimes it's one file outdated on the installation. But if you only gonna change images, then the "Drag & Drop" method works fine.
[Galaxy S II General] apollopayne:
trying the drop and drag method now. Sorry for being a noob. My aim at the mo is just to customize the back round/dialer etc like you have done in this thread
[Galaxy S II General] GaboWinter:
You don't need to apologize, everyone here was a noob once :)

Yeah, with the Drag & Drop must be works fine ;)
[Galaxy S II General] apollopayne:
Thanks, worked grea. can I do same with dialer etc?

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ty sorted
[Galaxy S II General] GaboWinter:
Yes, same process...
[Galaxy S II General] nismax:
Nice
[Galaxy S II General] GaboWinter:
Ok mate, i'm gonna take a look on the errors but please edit your post and put all the text inside of the

tags

EDIT: Thanks

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[Galaxy S II General] GaboWinter:
Do you install your framework first? Before of decompile or recompile the first time you must run the command: apktool if framework-res.apk

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[Galaxy S II General] LegendZenify:
I had that error too.

Replace (or edit using gimp) drawable-hdpi/quickactions_arrowup_right_holo_light.9.png and drawable-hdpi/scrollbar_handle_accelerated_anim2.9.png.

There are tutorials on the net for how to handle 9patch images.

Note that:

-the outside border can only be 1px

-it must be fully black #0000000 (can be checked in photoshop or gimp)

Also, ensure that framework-res.apk is installed.

After changing those images, the compilation went smoothly.

Let me know if this works :p
[Galaxy S II General] prashamsahni:
yes did that!!