[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] SICKMADE:
How to change dialer background to a custom image of your choice!

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TUTORIAL: HOW TO

HOW TO MOD SECCONTACTS_OSUP AND ADD IN ANY CUSTOM IMAGE AS YOUR DIALER BACKGROUND.

Note:

Will work with any varient of the Note 3 only changes is that instead of editing the 2 tmobile dialpad_fragment folders you would edit the 2 dialpad_fragment folders for your carrier. For ex. if AT&T then edit: dialpad_fragment_att and dialpad_fragment_att_easy The 3rd folder that we edit will be the same no matter the carrier.

I am right in the middle of making a theme and updating a bunch of stuff since Samsung or T-mobile....who evers fault it is... there has been like 3 updates within the last 3 weeks it seems like! Ah... oh well lol. But any way I am gonna make this sweet and quick like bangin your chic... Just follow my steps and all will be good! And if by chance you get stuck just P.M. me and I will help you out. O.K here we go>

Step # 1:

Since the whole point of this is inserting any custom dialer background that you want.... lets first get the png ready! So open up your editing software... I personally use Adobe Photoshop and create a new document and *IMPORTANT* the size needs to be 720*1084!! So create a new document and make it 720*1084 and then you can open the image that you want to be your dialer bg and drag it over to our new document adjust it and do any sort of image edits you want...now to save it.

Save it as a png.!!

I name mine sickmade, but name it anything that you want just make sure that the name isn't too long.

Step #2 :

Now take your SecContacts_ousp.apk and decompile it. After decompile open it up and go into the res folder and you will see

layout-sw360dp-xxhdpi folder. Now all were are going to do is edit a couple lines in there.

Step #3:

Scroll down and the folders that we are looking for are the: dialpad_fragment_tmo and dialpad_fragment_tmo_easy and though it may not be necessary the dialpad_fragment folder. All were gonna do is instead of the xml calling for a hex color code for the dialer bg we are gonna replace the hex code with a line that after applied will allow us to use our custom dialer bg we created in step #1. In all 3 "dialpadfragment" files the line we are going to edit is on the 2nd line!.

For example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout android:orientation="horizontal" android:id="@id/dialpad_allorientation" android:background=[COLOR="Red"]"#ffffffff" [/COLOR]android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

Now we are just going to take out the hex code that it calls for which will be the #ffffffff...leave the comas""!

And we are going to replace the #ffffffff with our custom dialer bg image that we made. For example remember I called my image (sickmade). So its gonna look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout android:orientation="horizontal" android:id="@id/dialpad_allorientation" android:background="[COLOR="Red"]@drawable/sickmade[/COLOR]" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

Now just open the 2 other dialpad_fragment folders and do the same! Now in these folders you can change the color of the dialer popup font " when dialing a number, the text that pops up" also so like if you are using a light bg then you can choose a dark font and vise versa. To do that just edit line number 10 where you see the hex color code: #ff253646... yours may be diff but just change the code to what ever color you want the popup font to be. I always change to white so i just erase everything after the #ff so for ex. #ffffffff would be white. #ff000000 would be black. and so on.

Again edit these in all 3 folders.

Step #4:

O.K. now that we have the editing all done all we need to do now before we recompile the apk is to take out dialer bg image that we made in step 1 and insert it into the drawable-sw360dp-xxhdpi folder. Again make sure you image size is 720*1084 and saved as a png! Drop it in the folder and then compile that bad boy up!! Now either insert the apk in a flashabe twrp folder and flash away or use a root browser or something and go into your system/privapp folder and find SecContacts_soup folder and instead of deleting it just rename it to .bak just in case something went wrong! Now paste our new Contacts.apk and dont forget to fix permissions! And reboot!

I can't think of anything that I may have left out but it's very possible because I am so tired so if I am and either I or someone else notices it just let me know and ill fix it. I hope you guys enjoy and remember to give back when ever possible. Doesn't matter what it is...if it aint in this thread and it has to do with theming try and find time to post a how to so that those who are just starting like we once were can learn how to do it all!

Much love and respect.....

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