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[Android Themes] LeftyGR:
DISCLAIMER: This is not being posted as a work around. If you try to recreate this and you screw up you phone, that's on you! This is being posted as an observation for TBO only. You have been warned!

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Info for the team. I've been messing around with gms core. Your gcore doesn't register as installed with youtube or gnow. But it does allow me to use gmail and chrome. But you already know that...right?

Here's where is gets funky.

-I install the gcore from play store. Then obviously gmail and chrome f/c and I can use other apps.

-I use tibu to convert the official gcore to system app. That's right. Convert, but no option to integrate! Now...I have two gcore apps in the system/app folder!

-So with my current setup if I want to use gmail or chrome, I use settings/app manager to "disable" gcore (the official one, because your gcore never shows up). I reverse that if I want to use gnow or youtube.

I know this sounds f'ed up, but I just did this 6 times.

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[Android Themes] djdarkknight96:
Now that's weird, my YouTube and Google now work with both.
[Android Themes] LeftyGR:
Yeah... And before today I never had any problems whatsoever. I guess that's what I get for wiping my phone for building and theming a rom...

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[Android Themes] Riche101UK:
My GNow and YouTube Clear work ok with 4.3 its TBO Gmail and Chrome are the pains. DJ give me a shout etc if you need cat logs etc
[Android Themes] grad061980:
I'm on the Moto X & the stock 4.4 rom. I think I got my old play services to stick now, even after powering down the phone. I was having quite the time with my play services updating when I would just download & install the older one from the face book link.

I changed the way I applied play services. I downloaded the kit kat zip & extracted the PrebuiltGmsCore.apk. I went into the system folder to PRIV-APP & renamed GmsCore.apk to GmsCore.apk.bak. Then I copied the PrebuiltGmsCore.apk into the PRIV-APP folder, changing the permission & rebooted. Play services hasn't updated in a few days now & all my themed gapps work. Thanks all for the files TBO.
[Android Themes] Riche101UK:
What did you change the permissions too thnx may try this
[Android Themes] Train88:
Woke up unusually early this morning, so I got started on this... Still a WIP obviously though..
[Android Themes] davietr:
Good to see the wheels still turning. I'm still looking forward to your Clear Pandora. Will you be trying a Clear version of Iheart?

Thanks in advance
[Android Themes] dafoxs:
Isn't there one on the site

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[Android Themes] davietr:
The Black Pandora is on your site. Train did a clear version that hasn't been posted yet. DJ has mention that the clear version will be added to the site soon.
[Android Themes] dafoxs:
DJ is moving right now. It maybe a while. Clear I heart I was referring to

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[Android Themes] davietr:
I have the Black Iheart version 4.9.2 from I think December. As I looked and as I remember there isn't a clear version. Not a problem if it's only black. I takes whats I cans gets.

Good luck with the move DJ.
[Android Themes] Train88:
Current iHeartRadio is 4.11.0, clear hasn't been done. I'm not sure how it would look, I think it has overlapping layers like spotify
[Android Themes] davietr:
Then Black it is. Thanks
[Android Themes] urrgevo:
I might have stumbled across something regarding the play services guys. Decided to start completely fresh and try something different.

USCellular S4

TWRP 2.6.0.1

Team OCTOS 4.4.2 ROM (latest build)

Team OCTOS gapps package (its an old one from February I use for dalvik enhancements, isn't ART compatible)

I formatted my internal SD and flashed just the ROM, then booted and did the initial setup without gapps. Went back into recovery and flashed my old gapps package, rebooted, and opened the play store and signed in when prompted. Grabbed titanium and root explorer and rebooted into recovery. Flashed the modified play services and TBO gapps and rebooted. Note that by doing it this way I skipped the Google sign in during setup where it asks you for permission for locations and such, signing in via play store it only asked for permission to send ads to my gmail.

Went about checking TBO apps to ensure they were working and the play store kept crashing. Went into device admin to disable play services and it wasn't there, tried to uninstall the update and it failed to do so. So I pulled the play services from my old gapps package and copy/pasted it over the existing one and set permissions via root explorer and rebooted. Play store was fixed, gmail works.

Opened Google now, said yes I'm in, ( since I didn't during setup, app wasn't there) and it started to load, then asked me to update play services. I then deleted it since I don't really use it often lately. That was 10 hours and two reboots ago and my play services have not updated. I only opened the play store and nothing else until I got the old one in place and haven't been asked to sign in by gmail. Play services version 4.0.34.

Sorry for the long post, I felt I should tell exactly what I did to see if those more knowledgeable can recreate this. If I'm right it seems other gapps are helping play services update.
[Android Themes] LeftyGR:
So I'm just curious. To tbo... The themed apps that do not work are gmail and chrome. Any others? I just wondered if theming a stock gmail by using the vrtheme scripts would work. I have the stock gcore and the stock gmail, which works of course. I just did a basic vrtheme zip to change the icon of gmail. It still works.

Any thoughts on how this could help with the themed gapps that are borked? Like maybe make the themed app zip install the stock app then add the theme on top of it.

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[Android Themes] djdarkknight96:
No in order to fully theme it we have to decompile it, doing so breaks the manifest so we have no choice but to hack it to work.

We have a ton of people working on this so let's just let them do their thing. I'm off the case until they are stumped. They have ibotpeaches the apk tool developer helping..So the real advanced hackers are on it!
[Android Themes] bluedragon38:
Error 404 - Not Found

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press the apps tab then cleared apps
[Android Themes] raycaster3:
Same here. I flash slim gapps, then the TBO Google settings zip, and everything works from the second I boot. I've updated wallet, and it doesn't ask me for the update, and all other apps work perfectly. This has to be the one if the weirdest things I've ever experienced with android... And I've been around a minute or two.

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That's what happens when you become android royalty like TBO. You guys truly are one of the best parts about the android customization world. ???
[Android Themes] 78Staff:
You're picking up the colon from the emoticon... It should be http://www.designrifts.com/teamblackedoutapp/category/transparent-apps/

BUT,

I find it best to look here for the most recent versions, etc...

http://www.designrifts.com/teamblackedoutapp/recently-added/

http://www.designrifts.com/teamblackedoutapp/recently-updated-2/
[Android Themes] TeH PLAYA:
Anyone here have the old black spotify 0.7.6.344? Thanks :good:
[Android Themes] dafoxs:
What's wrong with the new one

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[Android Themes] TeH PLAYA:
Newest version no longer works with tablet metrics x posed module.
[Android Themes] chopt51:
If your not allowed to ask for updates on a app that was previously blacked out.. What is the least offensive way to submit a request?
[Android Themes] djdarkknight96:
Request for updates or a new app? New app request hours on our site's request page.

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[Android Themes] Train88:
You do realize there was absolutely no difference between that version and the newest blacked out version? I merely had to merge my edits in... Not to mention spotify has already updated again..
[Android Themes] TeH PLAYA:
Never had Spotify till recently, so I never had that version. Trying to get it to run in tablet mode so I don't have to run in shuffle. So I'm looking for whichever previous version allowed it.

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[Android Themes] Train88:
Sounds like an issue for the xposed module dev...
[Android Themes] Fhrdn:
Still can't find the solution for black bg, but i've change the font color so it's readable now :)

Anyway i try to invert the contact preview, what apk that i should to edit?

I try with Contacts.apk but this just one for phone dial not for contact preview

Sorry for my english

Regards.
[Android Themes] djdarkknight96:
Not sure about Firefox but the contacts is one of my past enemies. :-\

To invert it takes a few creative hacks so I understand it's not easy. In this screenshot I had to edit contacts.apk and framework-res.apk. Not easy to explain and I have it themed with the theme chooser.

If you take apart my KlearKat light theme and see the contacts xml in the xml folder it might help locate some things. I group my special edits at the bottom of the xml.

I can try and help but like I said it's tricky.

Edit:

Wait a min, looking at your screenshot closer it looks different then stock KitKat. Is that sense KitKat or something?
[Android Themes] Bubba:
(This is a question not a request) Has anyone on the team fooled with inverting the TW Calendar? (Repeat, this is not a request .. only a question) :cowboy:
[Android Themes] Thebear j koss:
I don't think so. You mean the 4.4 tw calendar? I only know 2 guys that have inverted any tw calendar and they are both on 4.3

Thebe@r'$ G@L@XY
[Android Themes] marcran75:
What tools do you guys use for your theming? Looking for some recommendations as to what are the best tools to get me started. I wanna take a stab at some theming.

Edit: I'm on Windows if that makes any difference.

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[Android Themes] Bubba:
Thanks for the reply. I am actually referring to the 4.3 (sorry I failed to mention as 4.4 is not rootable for Note 3 at the moment). Could you give me some direction to where they may have posted it, assuming that they decided to share. I have only been able to find the Play Store version so far.
[Android Themes] djdarkknight96:
All our resources are linked on the site. Look under the guides tab.
[Android Themes] marcran75:
They are on the site. Top right corner click the Touchwiz tab.

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[Android Themes] Bubba:
Thanks. I just recently bought this phone and it's the first time I've ever been on touchwiz ... CM and AOKP prior. It never occurred to me that they might be there .. lmao. Thanks again
[Android Themes] marcran75:
My bad. I was reading the guide in [MENTION=1015941]dafoxs[/MENTION] signature and it doesn't make any mention of resources except for the multi-tool.

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[Android Themes] djdarkknight96:
Yeah that's his personal guide. The one on the site b_boytm made. I'm think of doing a Theme school. Not sure of the details but it would be a step by step class in Windows. Or a video tutorial on how to blackout. Not sure yet.
[Android Themes] marcran75:
I'm sure it would be greatly appreciated if you did.:thumbup::thumbup:

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[Android Themes] fly4awhtgye:
Theme school sounds awesome.
[Android Themes] djdarkknight96:
Yeah my thought was to start a new thread with weekly assignments so people can follow along or use the thread as a resource.
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Brilliant idea, really hope you do it. It will bring me on leaps and bounds
[Android Themes] davietr:
DJ.

That would be absolutely fantastic. I promise to be your #1 "D" student.
[Android Themes] razen_kain:
I'd sign up for that. Hell yeah!
[Android Themes] scoobyjenkins:
Will this method not work for your variant on 4.4? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2498850

*edit* (sorry ignore me, missed the big red letters on the op!

Also, KingoApp (for the pc) may work, worth a look.

Tapatalked that shiznit.
[Android Themes] Thebear j koss:
I smell a dorito money maker!!! I can see the infomercial now...

Thebe@r'$ G@L@XY

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The 1 on the site is for 4.1.2. There is only 1 or 2 guys I know of that have done an inverted tw calendar for 4.3. You would need to be running their ROM to get it. I have mine 95% inverted but for the gs3 on 4.3. It's 1 of the worst apps to invert...

Thebe@r'$ G@L@XY
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There is an inverted and blue splaner for the note 2 on 4.4 but it's part of a theme
[Android Themes] Thebear j koss:
. This is what I got so far. A lot of stuff is not changeable or is buried in smali.

Thebe@r'$ G@L@XY
[Android Themes] Thebear j koss:
I forgot to add DJ's Google calendar works just as well as a replacement for the two calendar. It even syncs your tw calendar. I've played around with both.

Thebe@r'$ G@L@XY
[Android Themes] :
Great minds think alike bear, I use splanner and djs at the same time. Always wear my sunglasses when I use splanner though
[Android Themes] Bubba:
Nice work bear

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[Android Themes] Train88:
Man... its like *cricket cricket* here tonight... Good thing I have this to listen to ;)
[Android Themes] dafoxs:
Hes hooked

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[Android Themes] Train88:
Haha yup...got that right
[Android Themes] Train88:
Hopefully done tweaking iHeartRadio now... I gotta work on something else now lol
[Android Themes] PiggySmalls:
Looks like Spotify is catching on to what you guys do. http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/02/spotifys-new-design/
[Android Themes] tonyevo52:
Did you guys remove your app from the party store?
[Android Themes] TeamBlackOut:
Google did.. we are working on a fix that doesn't result in Google banning us...
[Android Themes] tonyevo52:
Didn't know they did that..thanks for the reply man, hope you guys are able to get it back up...website still works great though..
[Android Themes] TeamBlackOut:
We have the free version of the updater on the site or in this OP also.. working on a site shopping cart also for those that wanna donate to get the app outside the Play Store..
[Android Themes] Train88:
Well... Guess that means I won't have to work as hard to make spotify sexy now lol... On the other hand, they mention a lot of changes :-/

Yea, I think I'll just start that tomorrow. Hahaha
[Android Themes] PiggySmalls:
I can assure you, no matter how black it is, if they screw up the UI, I'll still be using the TBO Spotify app
[Android Themes] dafoxs:
Black IHeart Radio is upon FB

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[Android Themes] Thebear j koss:
Train did a great job with it. Then the tbots ironed out the kinks last night. Lol.

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[Android Themes] The Root:
Just updated to Kit Kat and having a major issue with the settings fix. If I just flash it, it doesn't recognize the "preconfiguredgmscore.apk" as anything. If I put the old gmscore.apk in with it, clear Gmail works, but if I then go into wallet, it prompts me to update play services and breaks Gmail again. Any happy medium available?
[Android Themes] dafoxs:
If you read back the past dozen pages there are several happy mediums mentioned

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[Android Themes] The Root:
I've been trying them all after having read. That's why I am now asking. On 4.3 I wasn't having this much trouble getting it to stick without something else breaking.
[Android Themes] dafoxs:
The boss mentioned, the big guys are working on the codes. Its a waiting game now. Not sure why, I'm not having any issues at all. Waiting is the best advice right now. We really dont want all the remedies post anymore. What may work for one, may dork another

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[Android Themes] The Root:
Ok, that's all I was wondering. It worked very straightforward on 4.3 and wasn't sure if I was doing something insanely wrong since this is my first try with Kit Kat. Also, with the KK versions is the only difference where it's installing? I usually have to toy with play store to get it started and am assuming the actual apks are the same and it's just the zip that's modified.
[Android Themes] dafoxs:
They are not the same

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[Android Themes] The Root:
Sorry, was all set with settings and was talking about most recent play store. Those apks are different depending on the version too?
[Android Themes] dafoxs:
They are the same

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[Android Themes] The Root:
By the way, If anyone on Touchwiz ever has problems getting themed play store to stick and even exist when installing a new Rom, let me know. I have a trick that always works.
[Android Themes] dafoxs:
Just wondering if anyone uses Stitcher Radio for Podcast? It just got a new UI. I don't want to do it if its a dead app

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[Android Themes] bigmike6200:
Please share the trick.

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[Android Themes] The Root:
You have to push a really old version of clear play store over it, reboot and then push or flash the new version. I can pm you the old zip if the team is ok with it.
[Android Themes] bigmike6200:
Thanks. I am on PAC ROM right now and everything sticks. I had been on TW since I got the phone. This is my first time on AOSP, so I kinda want hang on to what I got for now. O do appreciate the info.:thumbup:

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[Android Themes] dafoxs:
Updated Google wallets are on FB

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[Android Themes] djdarkknight96:
Y'ALL READY FOR SOME UPDATES?

I'LL GET ON IT TONIGHT!

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[Android Themes] Swamphound:
Woo Hoo! I especially love that you said "y'all!"

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[Android Themes] suaverc118:
Yes we are! Thanks
[Android Themes] NoSpamDan:
Yee-haw! At the ready, Captain!
[Android Themes] lations:
Thanks for all the hard work.

How can I get black Google Now to install? The download page says I need to uninstall the stock one first, but i absolutely cannot find how to do that. It used to be called Velvet.apk or something, but i can't find any sort of APK relating to it :(

I'm coming from a fresh install of Slimkat, I tried flashing the black Google Now anyway, but no go. Do I need to fix permissions or something?>

Gmail also isn't working... gives me the "unfortunately, gmail has stopped" error whenever I try to open it.

Additionally, I had some weird error where "Google Play Services Has Stopped" kept constantly appearing, I had to update it from the store to fix it.

As much as I understand I'm a noob, the instructions aren't amazingly clear...is anybody able to help me here?
[Android Themes] The Root:
Which version of google now did you use? Kit Kat needs to put those apps in the prvapp (or whatever it's called folder under system.) You may need to make sure your play services are up to date and cooperating with all apps. Things are weird in that dept right now.
[Android Themes] lations:
Wow, this is the first I've heard of this new prv-app area. I'm used to just using the system folder, etc.

How do I make sure my "google play services" are up to date?
[Android Themes] djdarkknight96:
One, uninstall doesn't mean delete. So no need to delete anything from system. Just uninstall updates of that app.

Two, you need to flash the KitKat zips since you're on KitKat.

The zips will delete various version names of the stock app...velvet.apk GoogleNow.apk....etc

Three, have you looked in the OP for any answers? We have an FAQ section at the bottom.

Hope that helps!

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[Android Themes] lations:
Thanks for all the advice, but I'm really struggling here. As far as I knew it was only possible to "uninstall updates" of an app if it has previously received an update. Coming from a fresh install, I don't have an updates to remove as far as I know. Previously I've done that before via the Google Play store, is this where I'm supposed to do it from?

Thanks for the note about the kitkat-specific downloads, I'll double check those. But there isn't one for gmail, and I'm not even able to open Gmail without it force-closing?

I read the OP but it wasn't amazingly clear, and it didn't seem to relate to the problems I was having either.
[Android Themes] djdarkknight96:
Ok if there are no updates then you didn't need to uninstall any...you're making it harder than it is...Gmail issue is on going it's the new Google play services causing it...which is explained fully in the OP. Not understanding how it's not clear enough. No one else has said they didn't understand it.

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[Android Themes] razen_kain:
Play services? Trust me. They're up to date.

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Edit: I'm sorry. That's rude. I've been drinking and that's not like me. I apologize
[Android Themes] djdarkknight96:
Wasn't rude, was very true..it's probably updated. Lol
[Android Themes] lations:
Alright, thank you very much, and sorry for not understanding the OP the first time. I fixed the gmail issue. However Google Now is still white - even though I did indeed flash the Kitkat version of the zip.

Any suggestions here??
[Android Themes] razen_kain:
I've spent two days across three ROMs trying to get the zip to take and/or stick and I've given up. My solution was to just use an old version of [MENTION=2744223]camblue[/MENTION] 's inverted gmail it's 4.5.... something... I don't remember ATM
[Android Themes] djdarkknight96:
Yeah you'll have to wait until I can get the newest working. You might have the updated stock version installed. Playstore update is also in progress.
[Android Themes] scoobyjenkins:
Do you use gapps that includes Google Now? I would recommend using a minimal gapps package that has just Play Store and some syncing stuff. I use Banks Minimal. On a fresh install, if you flash rom, gapps and TBO zips (not Play just yet), I can't see how it wouldn't work. Then, once you've opened stock Play Store, you can flash a TBO version, or like me, modify the gapps package to include it from the start. Like the guys say, Gmail and Chrome have issues with new Play Services, I'm waiting it out for now with those 2 in fugly mode!

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[Android Themes] dafoxs:
Maybe add to the OP, make sure you're sober before attempting this. Nice to have noob here, but read OPs first

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[Android Themes] lations:
No offense to TBO, but I wouldn't even be here if the Slim rom team had 'darkened' their gapps pack. For some reason they're lagging behind with their latest release, the rom itself is fine but the gapps pack hasn't been fully darkened, only a couple of the apps have. Normally I only use TBO for things like Keep, Maps, and Facebook/Twitter. Slim rom usually has all the other Google apps like Talk, Gmail, Music, Play, etc etc already natively darkened
[Android Themes] tsatomas:
Could you please someone post again the link for black gapps(DU), sorry I lost it and XDA phone search sucks(a little...)

Edit: NM, I web searched and found it.
[Android Themes] razen_kain:
Haha! Was this for me?
[Android Themes] ahoslc:
So after installing the modified play store from FAQ. Anytime I try to open Google Plus it says I must update google play services to use?
[Android Themes] djdarkknight96:
If you're using the stock version it's possible it needs the new one but our last themed version works fine. Google plus won't let us edit it anymore and Google services is causing even more issues now. We might be stuck for now.
[Android Themes] ahoslc:
Thanks for the info I see this at the latest BlackGoogle+ 4.2.4.58179886 ?
[Android Themes] djdarkknight96:
If that's what it says then yes.