yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] garyd9:
Unfortunately, your question wasn't specific enough to answer. Are you referring to the font of the icon labels on the home screen, or something else? If the homescreen, a hint to the answer can be found in the original post, near the bottom of the code block that alters the styles.xml file...

Please keep in mind that I'm trying to get other people into the frame of mind for development, not to figure everything out for others. (That's not any type of attack - it's a generic statement.) My hope is that if I point people in the right (or left) direction, that they'll take things one step further... and share whatever they figure out.

The next person will take it to the next level, and so on. Eventually, instead of having just a few people here on XDA doing 95% of the development, I hope to get more people contributing and eventually have 20-30% of the community doing development of some kind or another.

I know its ambitious, and there's only a very tiny percentage of the community even using a NoteII. However, each single person that does one thing and shares is another person towards that goal.

Take care

Gary
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] GQJ:
I was speaking about the font in general. Not knowing to differentiate between the home screen and the app drawer. I did not see an option to change the font color, unlike changing some of the other options indicated in your post, and the post you borrowed the information from. Plus, the options on the original guide show "menuAppsGrid" and "home" before it indicates what values need to be changed. Which I did not see in your post.

Personally, I don't know the first thing about .xml, so I would not necessarily want to offer any opinions just yet. Obviously that is not your job to answer every minute question I or anyone else has, and If I found something I thought I could indeed share, I would.

Clearly I could go and learn about xml, but my initial goal was to just follow the instructions, provide feedback, and maybe a screenshot if necessary, then take it to the next level if I could get into it. I appreciate that there are tutorials out there.

To answer your question about wanting to learn, or just being content with being handed the .apks, it is a little bit of both. It would be nice to understand how to adjust the figures on the .xml for the home screen, and understand the what the words mean. And provide input about what happened when I adjusted the figures as described in the two posts. But I'm pretty sure I do not want to build a ROM, or other complex tasks that I do not even know how to describe. I could become interested, or maybe not.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] garyd9:
Again, you quoted the entire message. Please edit it down to what is relevant to the reply. When someone quotes an entire post (and I'm reading from my phone), I generally skip their post completely. Then, when I'm back on my PC, I don't see their post in my list of new messages.

Yes, take a look in the one file I mentioned in my previous reply. That's where I changed the font size for the 5 columns, so there might be something in there for changing it to bold or perhaps the color. I don't know off the top of my head what can and can't be changed from there, so would have to go through the same steps as you would to figure it out.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] initial_k:
Gary, would this work with the T-mobile Note 2 or just the AT&T version?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] garyd9:
If you follow the steps, it should work for any Note2.

The attached samples will probably work with a TMO firmware, but might introduce breakage somewhere if there are differences in the firmware versions. (For example, does TMO have multi-window? If so, that might get broken using the AT&T apk's.)

Gary
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] initial_k:
Thank you, I'll backuo and give it a try
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] padlad:
Many, many thanks for this 'how to'! I have successfully applied the mod to have a 6x7 grid size, plus, with a little bit more tinkering, a 6 icon dock for my international Note 2. Nice one ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] tpcastelli:
Where and how to install you .apk file?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] daddymatt:
Could you share yours please and post it here? Big thanks!

Sent from my AT&T Galaxy Note II /w wireless charging.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] padlad:
You can get it from THIS POST have fun!

*Update* Updated to 6x7 grid size with up to 7 icons in the dock, get it from THIS POST have more fun! ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Khar00f:
Good day folks, I seem to be having a small issue.

I just flashed Stock LK7 Rom on my i317m, looked everywhere for "res/values/bools.xml" and for the life of me I can't find it anywhere

Actually I don't have a RES folder at all, went from the root of the phone and looked in every folder (almost) no RES folder

Tried using ES File Explorer and did a search for "bools.xml" starting from the ROOT and it came up blank.

- Extracted SecLauncher2.apk from the system/app folder there is a RES folder there, but no VALUES folder within and no bools.xml anywhere in the SecLauncher2.apk file.

Can someone tell me if it's a ROM thing where things got renamed and moved around or am I doing something wrong?

Thank you for The How-to

Rodi
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] garyd9:
I'll try very hard to restrain myself here. Please go read the original post for this thread again. Follow the links provided... If you still don't get it, please read it again and again and again until you do. It's not difficult if you follow the instructions.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Woody:
No you cannot make a request. I suggest you re-read this thread and see how "request" get dealt with (I did). This is a HOW-TO thread, not a please make this for me thread. If you want something made, ask for it somewhere else. If you want to learn how to make these yourself, then stick around.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] initial_k:
Gary, you're right. After updating to the T-mobile rom with multiview, the samples no longer work. Touchwiz crashed constantly.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] thunderx2000:
Is there a version for the UCALK7 ROM?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] garyd9:
Please spend the time to read the thread. Even just read the entire original post. This thread is a "how to" and the instructions apply fine to the newer firmware files.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] thunderx2000:
Yeah I did that. I read the whole post. I even tried to do it myself based of the how to guide in the link you posted. I went step by step, but guess what. It doesn't work, at all. I even tried the on of the files you posted, they didn't work either. For none of the stock ROMs.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Rene_ajax:
I changed grid to 5 vertical, and 4 horizontal. But only my layout is weird. It doesnt match with your given ones, I think because Galaxy s2 has other values. Look! Help!:(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] TTaylor_:
App Launcher Icon

Can anyone tell me how to manipulate the size of the "App" icon? It's the only thing I can't solve?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] IndicaForest:
Get nova launcher pro and go into the settings. You can change the icon size through there.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] TTaylor_:
....Thanks bro, this is a Touchwiz thread though.. Prefer to keep the decent UI of TW or LG. 3rd party launchers are garbage IMO.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] martyh1:
Ok. Must have not read this through or did something wrong. This really hosed my Note 2. I had my note 2 rooted but no custom recovery. It has the first update (that includes multi-view). I tried renaming SecLauncher2.apk and then copied over the SecLauncher2.4x5.apk and renamed it to SecLauncher2.apk. I didn't change permissions. I hit the home button and it waited a few seconds, then rebooted. Now its stuck at the Samsung logo. Suggestions? I had a note I before and the typical 3 finger and 2 finger combo on boot aren't working. I'm really hosed here.

update: Fixed it. That was scary. Won't mess with this mod again, at least not for a while. Learned a few things in the process though: The key combos are different than the note 1. You can get to adb shell if you're booted into the stock recovery. Once in there, I could restore the files they way they were before (i.e. mv SecLauncher2save.apk SecLauncher2.apk after renaming that SecLauncher2.apk). After coming up the first time, the launcher was set back to defaults, so I'll have to set up my launcher again, but it's a small price to pay.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] garyd9:
It sounds like your error was using one of the attached examples instead if doing the mod yourself.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] martyh1:
Yes, that's what I did. My mistake (I guess). I think it might be better to remove those attachments, though, since the possibility to really mess up your phone with those is fairly high IMO. And the purpose of the thread seems to be to make those mods yourself anyway. (Again, my mistake for taking the short cut).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] IndicaForest:
I dont blame you, man. Im rockin TW right now too haha. Other than nova though thats the only thing I can think of to change the icon size.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] sling:
Gary

Thanks much for providing info getting me on the right track to 5x6 grid perfection
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] hednik:
worked perfectly on at&t i747 . Thank you !
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] aggie6600:
I did this mod on my stock rooted L900 and added auto rotation. Worked great.

I'm running stock rooted which means odexed.

First thing was deodexing SecLauncher2.apk using Univeral Deodexer from abcdjdj

After that I followed the OP instructions, but I really wanted the launcher to auto rotate as well. So I went to res/values/integers.xml and under resources I changed screenOrientation from 1 to 3

<integer name="config_screenOrientation">1</integer> -> <integer name="config_screenOrientation">3</integer>

Changing the cell values for landscape was really common sense after changing the portrait values. Icon labels get a little truncated in landscape mode, but with some tweaks I am sure I could get it right.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] computerslayer:
My apologies for being so late in the game. Please disregard if this is resurrecting a thread well beyond its life expectancy.

That said, I've run into a glitch that perhaps someone here might understand. Essentially, after enabling launcher rotation, the app drawer gets goofed up in a couple ways:

1) If the landscape integers/dimens files aren't adjusted, the default fifth row is cut off, showing only the top few pixels of each icon

2) If the landscape integers/dimens files are adjusted (in my case, to simply have 4 rows and the default 5 columns in landscape mode - the default 5x5 is still in portrait), except that when you rotate the device while in the app drawer, the settings of the first orientation are applied to the new orientation. (When the app draw is entered from either rotation, the proper grid settings are applied.

This is potentially problematic when switching from portrait to landscape. The question is how to have the launcher properly switch to the proper grid settings. I'm sure there is a setting I'm missing, but I don't know what it is.

Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated.

[edit]I realized after posting that I hadn't thanked the OP for this thread - even if I have to hash this glitch out myself, I am already much further along (ie, knowing which files to even edit!) than I was when I started. Thanks for a great howto![/edit]

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Phone: Verizon Galaxy Note II (SCH-I605)

ROM: Jelly'Beans' Build 21
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] ykssin:
After the latest att UCAMH3 updates, the mod doesn't work anymore. can someone make a new apk for this base. thanks. stock and rooted.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] mhossein_khamesian:
It doesn't work anymore please somebody help and make a 5×6 scrolable wich work on stock new at&t. I will be thankful!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] joshemiller13:
Note 2 5x5 Grid

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Eddie_Brock:
Will the pre-modified apk's in the OP work with 4.3, or will we have to modify them ourselves?

I don't mind doing the leg-work myself, however are there screenshots of the different configurations so I can see which one looks the best for me?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] absinthesummer:
I have a question for the OP... I love modifying apps/ROMS on my own, though I'm not incredibly proficient at modifying apks. I've done so in the past, but it was a while ago. How would I go about changing the default folder background in a stock TW launcher? What values do I need to change? I've included a screenshot to show the folder background I dislike.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bumrocky:
I know this is 18 months past, and an old thread, but I've just discovered your guides, and they've been awesome.

I totally love tweaking things on my own, and love learning as much as I can. I tend to prefer stock roms, but with the ability to make my own tweaks instead of downloading an all new rom with tons of stuff I don't need, and where some of the changes aren't what I want.

Thank you for it all!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] absinthesummer:
I agree with this. While I and a few others enjoy learning how to do new things, there will always be people who would rather be given a fish than learn how to fish themselves. It's unfortunate, but the only thing you really could do would be to only respond to those who show a willingness to learn.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] vincentshjuan:
Does this method still applies to the new kit kat releases? I tried comparing and the file structure seems to be different? Anyone any idea how to change the grid size on the new kit kat TouchWiz ROMs?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] garyd9:
I can no longer help with this - I don't own the NoteII anymore...

Take care

Gary
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] vincentshjuan:
I see, thanks for the reply anyway.... all the best...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] absinthesummer:
[MENTION=336863]garyd9[/MENTION],

This post is informative and helpful, and encourages others to learn as well. I know it's an old thread, but I've come back to it multiple times for reference. I'd like to add to this by posting the threads that provides the tools needed to modify apks, and tutorials on how to use them. They can be found here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2213985

And here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=33815550#post33815550

These threads are extremely helpful for those who want to learn how to decompile, modify, recompile, & sign apks. Also, recommend Notepad++ for editing XML files for those who aren't familiar with it.

http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

Don't want to hijack your thread, just posting some related, helpful tools & guides provided by helpful people who are far more talented than I. :D

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The Touchwiz Launcher apk is now in priv-app. The decompiled apk files are pretty much the same, but the location of the actual home launcher has moved to /system/priv-app.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] DarkAngel:
@garyd9

TY sir. I have found this tut very informative and it has led me in the right direction to what I needed to do. Although I did not use your launchers I now have a working S5 Launcher with all the works on my Sprint Galaxy Mega.
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] achyut:
It is known that the usability of a ROM is much more than a few numbers and that some benchmarks can be well modded to give higher results. but then too, since there are some benchmarks with pretty consistent outcomes and *can* give an idea of how fast the phone is.

post the ROM and Governor you use.

am starting with mine.

ROM - PRADA ROM and Supressed ROM

Governor - Ondemand, performance

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[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] petraru1:
how did you get such a high score in quadrant? i see a i/o 8763 score, what i/o scheduler did you used ?
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] varun.chitre15:
Quadrant score are buggy and untrustable and hence false one.

Code Aurora needs to refine the benchmarking logic
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] achyut:
yup.... apparently, we can take advantage of a specific loophole to get much much higher results than the capability of the phone.

:highfive:
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] SirHarvester:
I did three tests of that benchmarks for each device of my Galaxy S family.

I9000 1x1,2 GHz OC, AOKP 4.1.2

Overall performance:

Quadrant 2.0: 1,5 – 1,7 k

Antutu 3.1.1: ~ 4 k

CF bench 1.2: not completed

Smartbench 2012: not completed

GPU performance:

NenaMark 2: 29 fps

I9070 2x1,0 GHz, stock XXLQ4 4.1.2

Overall performance:

Quadrant 2.1.1: 2,5 - 3,2 k

Antutu 3.2: 6,3 – 6,7 k

CF Bench: (7943, 2427, 4633)/(7560, 2488, 4516)/(7685, 2452, 4545)

Smartbench 2012: 2107/1837/1741

GPU preformance:

NenaMark 2: 38 fps

I9100 2x1,2 GHz, stock XWLSD 4.1.2

Overall performance:

Quadrant 2.1.1: 3,5 - 4,5 k

Antutu 3.1.1: 9,5 - 9,9 k

CF bench 1.2: (9875, 3015, 5759)/(9945, 3025, 5793)/(9393, 3116, 5626)

Smartbench 2012: 2517/2676/2539

GPU performance:

NenaMark 2: 49 fps
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] showmark:
How to Downgrade my galaxy w ICS 4.0.4 to GB 2.3.6

Please help me how to downgrade my samsung galaxy w ICS 4.0.4 to GB 2.3.6

i really don't know how please help me

:crying:
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] KingDani1997:
Wrong section this is galaxy s advance.

Follow this guide: xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1467128
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] brfitzp:
I am currently on the aokp rom and i need to sell the phone and wipe everything on the phone. I cant seem to find a guide that does this perfectly. Ideally I would like to return to 100% stock as if the phone is brand new out of the box.

Any suggestions?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ShinyBuddha:
Flash one of these http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=33570269 and you should be good.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] brfitzp:
Perfect thanks, downloading now.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] GladdBag:
Go here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1746665 and follow the instructions - watch the video from wwjoshdew and it's super easy. Get a stock rom from here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1739426 - this thread also provides instructions on how to revert back to stock.

You could always sell the phone the way it is - the aokp rom is a definite feature..
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] brfitzp:
Yea but i think the average person is going to be like wtf is this. Most people don't know about custom roms and phones. (at least i dont think they do)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] brfitzp:
So i flashed the stock firmware and it keeps hanging at the samsung boot screen it does the att boot animation then gets stuck at the samsung one.

I put the md5 fild in the pda box on odin. thats correct right?

I'm trying to download the file from another mirror maybe i got a corrupt download.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] GladdBag:
No, just pull the battery and reboot into recovery. Do a wipe data/factory reset then reboot and you should be good to go.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] brfitzp:
Ok great it worked, thanks.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] GladdBag:
Anytime.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kleeman7:
Since the thread is here. If I used the root method to not trip flash counter. How do I return to stock without tripping the counter? Kies?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jackryan57:
Use Odin to flash the stock ROM mentioned above. That process won't trip it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tehsprayer:
Or use TriangleAway.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] JohnM109R:
Delete Please soory wrong thread :)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dk206:
What is going on here....no rouge apps as far as I'm aware of
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverDaddy:
Uh.... i have 5%....

If i have a problem like this i would wipe to factory reset and/or flashing the FW new.

Maybee you installed an app in last time where is the reason why you are at 30%?

Is your Note rooted and/or installed an custom rom?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hagba:
Remove the Maps update if you have done it lately.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lucidmike:
Oh I see now. The Android OS is staying awake. Strange, I don't see anything like that when I pull up Android OS.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dk206:
Phone is not rooted no custom roms either...Urgh:banghead:
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dk206:
Why is there a problem with it??
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dk206:
Ahhhh my bad. I had NFC S beam turned on...lol no wonder why :banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverDaddy:
And if you turned it off it is normally again?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Harvin Dhillon:
I actually have it turned on and it doesnt really keep my phone awake all the time
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] achyut:
we were due this thread for a long time. :cowboy:
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] migaia:
my pictures

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[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] upikabuu:
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[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] harshacker:
this device doesn't have camera zoom neither in image nor in video mode. we can use camerazoom fx app for image but nothing for vido zooming. this sucks.
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] shut_down:
Some of mine. :laugh:

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[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] upikabuu:
camera360 + osino wide macro + pixlr o matic

Sent from my GT-I9070
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] achyut:
:eek: these lookz AMAZING!!!
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] Raneet:
Are you kidding me?? Did an entire photo shoot of my motorbike with this phone... :)
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] Sami Kabir:
CAN ANYONE HELP ME...

AFTER ROOTING.. my Camera app doesn't work anymore.. after opening the Camera app, it opens fine but when I "tap" on the button to take a picture.. It hangs for a while and then automatically closes.. (not force close - it just automatically closes).. Even KIES stopped working.. maybe because I rooted my device.... Plz help..
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] shut_down:
Dude wrong thread! Watch it a little bit. :D And no need to post questons on every thread as you know... :silly: When I rooted it was all normal. Try to flash stock firmware via Odin, and root again. And if you don't know how, look for thread for reverting to stock ROM. :cool:

Look here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1985398

And you will lose root after flashing stock ROM. You need to root again.
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] atomik1337:
Wow dude, awesome pics and nice bike ;) did you use the default phone's camera? What did you use to edit them?
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] liteandglass:
heres mine.. :D

Sent from my SGS Advance GT-I9070
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] Raneet:
Thanks buddy.. :) Stock camera. No custom app.. Used Paint.NET for the hologram and rest.. :)
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] ferrettijr:
CameraZoomFX

This is one region of my city: Garuva - Santa Catarina - Brasil (Brazil)
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] Raneet:
Do we have any app using which we can use this selective coloring feature directly while shooting? Or any app with which we can edit in 1 touch or something like that in the phone itself without loosing the pic quality?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rudyp9:
I have a MHL Adapter and i am on light weight 3.0 but tv mirroring does not work

can someone let me know what rom supports this feature?:victory:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] todah09:
Im on lightweight 3.0 and tv mirroring is working find..maybe its the cable or make sure the charging cable is plugged into the adapter...