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[Omni Features Development] SPAstef:
Just want to say 2 things:

1) Icon packs are actually possible to make, I made for "educational purpose" a port of a little part of Moonshine Icon Pack, GemFlat theme icons and some icons I personally made.

There are some advantages compared to CM: you don't have to insert app activity in any XML file, but just overlay the icon using a layer that target the app you want to theme.

2) I didn't understand well a thing about portings: do you actually mean on Layers or on this new type of theme engine?
[Omni Features Development] orangekid:
Just a quick heads up.

Let's please read the OP before posting. If your post is not going to contribute to a technical discussion of the situation, please do not post it here. If your post mysteriously disappears with no warning, it is because such was not heeded.

Thanks.
[Omni Features Development] Orion116:
I believe this new way.

LiquidSmooth maintainer for d2usc/vzw & p600
[Omni Features Development] Entropy512:
1) Well, right now, icon packs can be loaded by launchers that are "icon pack" aware. CMTE allows any launcher to load an icon pack from the theme itself by altering the icon resource of the app itself. Right now "system icon packs" are pretty low priority since MOST popular launchers support loading icon packs themselves, unless someone can state a good use case for them other than "supports any launcher".

2) Since CMTE is the most common theming system with a LOT of themers behind it, it's ideal to try and make the transition from CMTE to any other system as painless as possible for a themer. A theme engine without themes is pretty useless. Layers attracted a lot of themers unhappy with CMTE mainly due to how Cyngn ran some of their theme contests, but many of those themers were still supporting CMTE. If you want someone to support more than one theme engine, and you're NOT the biggest one out there, you've got to make their life as easy as possible. (Strangely, one member of the Layers team said that everything he did was "for the themers" - but the majority of what he did made things harder for themers AND ROM developers, especially themers coming from CMTE.)

Also, just one request to moderators: Try to go light on the moderation unless things go bad. It's a long story, but one of my issues with the Layers team was going overboard on the moderation. That said, the post deleted was just a link to the Layers community with no other comments other than saying "don't reply to me"...
[Omni Features Development] SPAstef:
I am a themer of both CM and Layers. Now, CM has many features that Layers hasn't (such as fonts, wallpapers, boot animations...) But talking about app themes only I like very much more Layers because of exposed colors. In new "Layers 2.1" various errors that have been made during first exposing were fixed (as did [MENTION=3913401]atl4ntis[/MENTION] alone in his ROM), and you don't have to struggle with styles.xml for most of the things (so it's more noob friendly). Obviously there have been many situations where I missed thee possibility to link something to something other in the overlay.

So I think that layers isn't confusing very much. I found more confusing cm. I think that someone who never made themes would prefer layers to cmte. This is my opinion BTW :)
[Omni Features Development] Mazda:
I think the whole thing about whether is easy or hard can easily be fixed by creating templates just like in the CMTE where a "noob" can just git clone that and start off with that.......

If the template is done right with comments and all, it shouldn't be an issue. Then you have support threads which can be made after things are set and done where people can help each other and get things going.

Nothing is ever going to be "noob proof". Just take a look around at all the guides and everything for the most simple things. As easy as it is to flash a ROM, there's actually videos and guides for that and people STILL find themselves with that deer in the headlight look
[Omni Features Development] Entropy512:
Well, CMTE exposes colors too - can you provide a specific example of something that was easier in Layers than CMTE due to not being exposed?

I'm guessing probably something in Dialer or InCallUI, since the resource exposure commits in the rest of CMTE are pretty similar to Layers with a few exceptions. I'm willing to consider some "laziness commits" that expose resources as long as they don't conflict with existing ways of doing things.

Other themers I've spoken to preferred CMTE over Layers by a long shot. I think the learning curve of Layers for basic theming might be a bit shorter, however CMTE allows a themer to do much more. I've seen piles of things in Mono, Coalfield, and FlatshadeUI that would be an utter nightmare to do on Layers, if even possible. (As evidenced by the fact that some guy has been trying to port Coalfield to Layers for 2-3 weeks now - I had Coalfield working about 20-30 minutes after I started working on getting it to work with the new system.)

I looked into these fixes you claim they made... They're the fixes I fought for two months to get people to agree on, it appears that after I gave up and said "I've had enough", they squashed the fixup commits into the original ones and changed authorship (In addition to removing the post with my proposal from their community). For reference - the original fixup commits that I put forward for Layers 2.1 are at https://gerrit.omnirom.org/#/q/status:open+topic:rro2p1 and were originally written in late February. Similarly, any CMTE resource naming convention compatibility in Layers was proposed by myself for Layers 3 (WIP at https://gerrit.omnirom.org/#/c/12323/2) and rejected along with the Layers 2.1 fixes - it appears they pulled THIS in too and called the whole thing 2.1. (You'd think that a naming convention change would merit a major version number bump...)
[Omni Features Development] Entropy512:
One thing I want to do is to try and write some convenience tools for themers... This may be necessary to handle the "common" nightmare as I might need to preprocess "common" resources.

Of course, there are a lot of tradeoffs here... Sometimes making things TOO easy prompts a flood of some really awful stuff. Theme DIY was a great idea but it's led to a bunch of really horrible paid themes on the Play Store (despite the TDIY author stating that the tool was not to be used for paid themes), making people more reluctant to actually buy paid themes that ARE good.

Which is why I'm still torn on one feature of CMTE that handles cases where an overlay has an incomplete style that is missing attributes - Now, this makes a themer's life easier, but in general, the themes where lack of this feature has been a problem were ones of poor quality... One of the stated reasons for the patch was handling cases where an app updated causing the overlay to crash. The problem in this case is that it's better for something to be obviously wrong than for it to fail in subtle weird ways. Look at Facebook for example - at some point they made a MASSIVE overhaul of their styles. Some themes overlaid the "old" styles - as a result of the changes, they crashed with this engine, but caused strange graphical glitches in CMTE. (In fact, I need to check, but I think one themer removed all of his style overlays for Facebook from a theme because of this - at least he was considering it.)

I want to make themer's lives easier BUT I also don't want to encourage bad practices... There are some tough tradeoffs here.
[Omni Features Development] SPAstef:
I agree with you.

If also users with no theming capacity starts making paid themes this will be a pain for good themers.

Another question, do you have any ETA to complete this? (Or at least first points)
[Omni Features Development] Entropy512:
As far as ETAs - there are a lot of unknowns here. Also, I need to finish up some core Omni stuff that I let slide for... WAY too long because I was spending time on theming and Layers. There's a gigantic CAF ifdef effort I need to finish so we can start nightlies.

Also, if I recall correctly, you were working with the guy behind Carbon UI? (Elixium Dark is the Layers form of Carbon UI???) - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zyxxeil.carbon.ui

That was a pretty easy port since he only used common for some of the keyboard drawables. :)

MilosUI took about ten minutes (mostly, again, handling "common" in the keyboard).

I think I'm gonna pop back over to FlatshadeUI for a while though. :)
[Omni Features Development] SPAstef:
I didn't port it. We did it together (actually Elixium Dark was out 2 weeks before Carbon), so there was no problems into porting, because they are 2 different themes. With that project we showed that it's possible to make very good themes with both CM and Layers.

Milos is a port (but with some changes), yeah it was quite quick to port it.

Mainly the "hard work" is with common and with framework, systemUI and settings, as they are quite different to theme between the 2 platforms
[Omni Features Development] skynet11:
I look forward to adding this to my comparison between Layers and the CyanogenMod Theme Engine when I publish it :cool:
[Omni Features Development] Entropy512:
Ah. Thanks for the clarification.

I've been a bit busy with some unrelated things (finishing up stuff blocking Omni nightlies, Sony Z3 bringup), but I plan on putting up the following tomorrow:

1) Some reference materials for migrating CMTE themes

2) Some of the logging commits I've been using to analyze that whole packageID mess - the whole thing makes my head hurt, the commits that are on Gerrit work but I don't like aspects of them, especially the need for a modified aapt.
[Omni Features Development] wrick17:
It has been quite long since there has been any activity on this thread. Is this still being worked on? :)
[Omni Features Development] Entropy512:
Not lately. At some point I want to resume work on it, I just have been way too busy with other things for a while.

If someone figures out a way to get the whole self-referencing overlays to work without hacking aapt to change PackageIDs at build time that is the main thing I just haven't had the time to figure out yet.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] General_Mayhem:
I literally just upgraded to a Lollipop ROM and noticed that if I leave Bluetooth on when I reboot, it's off when the phone comes back up. Is this normal? This didn't happen under KitKat.

I'm running ViSiON-X

Not a show-stopper, but rather annoying TBH.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spiouki@yahoo.com:
Device: Samsung Galaxy S4 (SGH-I337M)

Android:5.0.1

Rooted

cwm custom recovery touch version.

When I do a Nandroid backup it seems to do successfully but I see errors in the log file.

And when I restore using the same backup after it finishes restore process, all the services stop working (example: google.app ....)

I attach screenshots and log file for backup process.

Please explain why this is happening and how to fix it.

Thanks

Sam

____________

As lennyz & Reaper suggested I switched to twrp, both backup and restore are working smoothly.

Thanks for help.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lennyz1988:
CWM isn't updated anymore. So you should either swith to TWRP or Philz (thought Philz isn't updated anymore either but it still works).

Maybe that could fix it. Also make sure you have plenty of space left when you make a nandroid. Something like 5gb when you are on TW rom.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhoban:
Use PhilZ, as it is based on CMW, so it should work with your backups. If you don't care about the backups anymore then go with TWRP. Haven't had any problems with TWRP so far.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] crazykas:
I always used HTC phones & i always noticed eventhough everything great on AOSP roms than SENSE roms,camera qulity/photo qulity of AOSP roms are poor.Sense roms have great photo quality.I konw there is mod wich sense cam can be insatalled on AOSP roms.But my question is,is photo quality are same on this device even on AOSP too?

thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] gonehaywire:
My eyes are gonna bleed I've read so much! As of yet I have not found an answer to solve my problem. I just finished putting a new LCD/Digitizer assembly on this 5.8 (model in title). I bought it as unlocked, but will not read the SIM card. I even tried both slots. Is there anything I have to do to make it read it? Sounds dumb I know, but this is my first dual SIM device. I just need it working yesterday.

Solved: stupid mistakes and the time they consume. I guess being a dual sim device, the #1 sim goes in exactly opposite of normal ones :eek:
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] this8918:
Hi guys,

After searching for a few days and doing stuff myself (perhaps not everything for the best), I finally get it over with and ask for advice.

I've got a GT-N8010, since long been running an unofficial CM11 build (since one of these CM11 builds, the device was known as a GT-N8013).

Last week I started looking at the unofficial CM12.0 and CM12.1 builds, those looked promising.

After some info, I flashed to the CM12.1 build. A few minutes later, Android 5.1 in all it glory... everything running fine. Saturday evening I noticed I didn't get root.

Without thinking straight, the next morning I started flashing superuser but as you might imaging, that totally f'ed the system.

Now logically, one could just reflash CM12.1 and be done with it .. somehow I skipped all logic and started tinkering in recovery (TWRP).

After some doing, I managed to even F-up TWRP, it wouldn't boot anymore. The TeamWin logo was visible, screen flashed, logo and back.

No worries, there's still the download mode .. yeah about that ... already in panic mode .. doing more harm than good.

So .. Now I'm at this curious state.

I've managed to get it booting to a stock ROM. TWRP is also running.

The weird stuff I'm encountering now:

The device is semi recognized as a GT-N8000, if it was just that, I really don't care.

I said semi, when I want to flash another ROM (even specifically the CM12.1 for GT-N8000) it always states (in ADB Sideload in TWRP) that the package is not for this device.

There's a whole lot of devices listed, then it states "this device is ." , as in blanco device?

Anyone got an idea how to fix it so I can enjoy the Android 5.1 build again? (and seriously, remove the stock rom would be the first priority)

Thanks.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BableMan:
This is a known issue but I'm curious if anyone has found a work around yet.

Swiftkey won't swype on the lockscreen in textra, whatsapp, centsms, notes, or anything I've tried. Samsung works fine but it's predictions are awful.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ThR1LL:
bump

this has been annoying me lately too
[Wing, P4350 Herald Upgrading] SuperRob:
Turns out that the ETEN Dialer does indeed work on WM6. So I've attached the Vista Dialer by PaulyA (http://www.paulya.com/dialerskins.htm) that I like so much. Trouble is, the themes don't go with it, so I found one that I was able to modify that looks better with it. Both files are in the ZIP. Copy to your My Documents directory. The .TSK will automatically get picked up by the Today settings, but the CAB must be run to install.

All credit to the original authors ... I just tweaked a bit to make it look nice for WM6.

Fair Warning: The ETEN Dialer will disable the Smart Dial functionality (punching in numbers and getting a list of contacts). However, it's so much easier to use the contact search now, I don't find this to be a drawback. Your mileage may vary.
[Wing, P4350 Herald Upgrading] bbee10:
can you please show me preview before i download
[T-Mobile HTC One (M7)] bmeek:
I currently use a Verizon M7 with an old "grandfathered" Verizon unlimited data plan... I really have no complaints about the service level, phone calls are clear and don't drop, LTE data speeds are great... Nonetheless, I dislike Verizon's increasingly-successful efforts to lock-down their devices to an unbreakable degree, I dislike the fact that Verizon STILL hasn't released Lollipop for their M7, AND I feel I'm paying way too much money every month for my line and 3 other lines for my wife and kids (they DON'T have unlimited data).

So, T-Mobile's month-to-month plans and offers to buy out Verizon contracts is tempting... Questions:

Does modern GSM still buzz through every nearby speaker?

How solid are telephone conversations on T-Mobile? Are you happy with their USA network? I'm working around the greater SF bay area with business travel to major metro areas - few road trips...

Are T-Mo's "unlimited" data plans truly unlimited, or do they throttle down speeds after a certain threshold?

Dare I keep using my m7wlv (verizon's HTC One variant) on T-Mo's network? Presumably I can just swap out the SIM, but I suspect limited band selection, etc.

Thanks!
[T-Mobile HTC One (M7)] JimboN:
Been on T-moblie for 1 1/2 yrs - came from Version

1) No - Never heard of this problem

2) Telephone conversations are just as good as on Verizon. We live in the Tucson, AZ area and have really good coverage here. I'm aware of a couple of spots where signal drops, but am rarely in those areas so no big deal. On road trips, coverage not as good as Verizon but on a trip to Glacier National Park, had signal 75% of the time (50% or more was roaming but at least we could still make calls). Considering the saving over Verizon, I'm happy to put up with that, especially since this is a once a year thing for a week or two only.

3) They throttle down speeds after you reach your high speed data limit. BE AWARE -- when roaming, data is greatly limited, and when you reach the limit, you are cut off.

4) No idea. When we switched, my son had a Verizon Nokia phone that was listed on T-mobile as compatible -- it mostly worked but there were a couple of things that didn't work quite right -- something with texting that didn't work right. After a couple of months, he sold it to my cousin who is on Verison, and wanted that particular phone and bought a Verizon model.

If I had it to do over again would I switch -- Most Definitely! I'm paying less on T-mobile for 4 smart phones than I did on Verizon for 3 flip phones and 1 smart phone, no contracts, unlimited text & talk and just as good of service. Nationwide, coverage is not nearly as good as Verizon, but then I'm not nationwide -- Just be sure to check coverage maps for the areas where coverage is important to you.

Hope that helps - I'll be sure to check back if you have more questions.

p.s. Opps, need to change my signature -- it's now a HTC One
[XDA Assist] Lucas444:
Hello people. I here again, this time I REALLY have a question, how do I carry one to another rom-like device with my for my ?? I want to use a custom rom Xperia, only she is for a similar device with mine, so I want to port it to my device-. It is to edit a file inside the rom to change? I want to do this to be able to undo the error in the Wi-Fi does not turn on (and this is very annoying, believe me) is that all you REALLY want to do, or else someone can teach me how to undo this Bug WI-FI, that is when it does not turn, I hope for answers >< even more

**My phone is GT-S5303B aand the rom is for the phone GT-S5301 :laugh:
[XDA Assist] jd1639:
Hi again. You can not flash a Rom from another device onto your device. It will fall or possibly brick your device. There is very little information about your device on XDA. That means it's probably best if you don't try to flash a Rom. I'm going to ask to have your thread moved here,http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2257421. Where maybe some one can help you.
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTF696:
I just got the ATIV SE fully functional on T-Mobiles network. Is there a setting in the registry to uncap Tethering for unlimited data?
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GoodDayToDie:
I think in theory it's possible to trick TMo into thinking that your tethering traffic is normal phone traffic, but I'm not sure how to do it (probably some of the settings stuff in ICSSVC, ConnectionName or similar). We've mostly been focused on getting tethering working at all, rather than anything else.
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTF696:
Only two keys in ICSSVC it could be are:

PrivateConnectionSettings OR PublicConnectionSettings - Both values are set to: System.Byte[]

I did change these settings in ICSSVC to "fix" tethering:

MOHelpLink - (blank)

EntitlementDll - (blank)

EntitlementRequired - 0
[Off-topic] 2PMintheAM:
So.. have you ever won any type of giveaway, raffle, or contest with a reward of notable value?

I have not d: But I still enter the occasional giveaways for tech! d:
[Off-topic] kenil89:
Same here..not won any giveaway still :(:(
[Off-topic] SynDevOut:
yes all the time
[Off-topic] ShadowLea:
Nope.
[Off-topic] kenil89:
Lucky man :beer::beer:
[Off-topic] Android_Monsters:
Radio station contests if you call at the right time.

It's getting harder, though.

More people using auto dialers.

Lottery scratch off tickets at a busy store. Buy the ones somebody just bought 6 of.

Stuff like that that takes mild skill.
[Off-topic] orangekid:
I won the game of life! :good:
[Off-topic] Sami Kabir:
Nope. Never. Not even once.

I have entered at least a few dozen of them - I'm just not lucky at all. :(

Sent from my GT-I9070
[Off-topic] Big Smrood:
I won 1$ in scratch card :D
[Off-topic] SublimeFoxTheater:
They used to have a game in taco bell where you drop a coin in some water and spin a holder of pedestals to catch the coin. A dime got a bean burrito if landed, quarters for cinnamon twists.

I won that a lot.
[Off-topic] Saurabh K:
I had won a lucky draw organised by a smartphone showroom. I won a Samsung mp3 player which was no good to me as it was pink in colour. ( no offence to pink lovers)
[Off-topic] Jesse72:
........to eBay it went...........

Sent from my Galaxy Note 4........FAKE! Admit it, you thought I had money for a second didn't you?
[Off-topic] Saurabh K:
Actually, I gave it to my sister in Exchange of 500 gm packets of gummy bear...................... took almost two weeks to finish :laugh:
[Off-topic] itscooleric:
I won a free chic-fil-a sandwich from the library once lol
[Off-topic] marcojrfurtado:
Unfortunately no
[Off-topic] Archer:
I won a HTC Titan about 3 years ago. I had about 3 phones at the time so it went on ebay. It was nice to win something for once though.
[Off-topic] AndrazZurman:
Sadly, no.
[Off-topic] tech_yeet:
Yes I have win a give away it was a free iPad 4 from the milk and dairy Association for taking a selfie with mine at school...
[Off-topic] advent_geek:
Nope. so far, I have n't got any one.
[Off-topic] aliyangohar4:
No I've never won a give away
[Off-topic] yotik:
How to participate in a give away
[HTC One S] myphonesbetter:
So I have spent the last couple days trying to s-off a new one s that I picked up.

(its been about a year and a half since I s-off'd my old one s)

The hboot is 2.15.000.

I got the ruu to flash 3.14.531.11 for moonshine and rumrunner.

Still wouldn't work.

I have rooted it and installed CM12. which is cool. But I was set out to s-off and I cant let the phone win ::mad:.

From what I understand, the problem is that the mmcblk0p4 file that I need to modify in order to change the cid to 11111111 is actually write protected in the newer roms. And apparently I cant just flash an older rom to get the older hboot.

Ive tried to extract it the normal way.

pulled it to my sdcard by copy pasting in an andoid file explorer app on the phone itself.

Edited it on the phone itself with a hex editor.

Even found an app that let me turn of w/p for the block folder then edited the file right in the root of the phone.

All these techniques seem to work until I restart my phone. once im in fastboot it always reverts back to the original cid.

I even tried a technique that changes it to 22222222. It was for a different phone but a lot of people say it worked for them.

So what to do? any suggestions?

And if not then what is the newest sense based rom that I can use without being s-off?