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[Android Themes] david1171:
a while after making that post i saw the official lockscreen thread and read about the bugs which is made me refrain from working any more on it.

i think i should start putting framework.jar into my non-lockscreen themes to increase the ease of going between non-lockscreen themes and lockscreen themes.

thank you for stepping in and saying something about it. also, thank you very much for compiling against the latest cyanogen roms. it is greatly appreciated.
[Android Themes] Boonyard:
Any chance of making updates available over CM updater?

This theme is fantastic!:D
[Android Themes] bolmedias:
So where's this easter egg? Can't find anything.
[Android Themes] david1171:
I looked at it a while back and felt overwhelmed, but next time I get a day off work, I can try looking at it again. (if that ever happens lol.) Also, I don't really know how that would work since I have all the different options :confused:

That's the whole point of it being an easter egg. One of them you have just have to wait long enough on your phone and you will see it. The other one, I have no clue where it is on the phone, so I figured if I made it really random someone may find it.
[Android Themes] Boonyard:
Just thought i'd report an issue...

For some reason the hack on Google navigation to get it working outside of the US works on the standard Cyanogen rom (4.2.5), but once I apply this theme it can't find a GPS signal! Weird!:confused:

:EDIT: Actually it may be nothing to do with this theme! Ignore me!
[Android Themes] david1171:
Updated OP with the latest version of stericson's lockscreen. thank you very much pershoot.

also put a new camera.apk up there, will included in next release but didn't have the time before i go to work, so just put a small file up.
[Android Themes] jayzusfk:
looks sweet, but the navi link on 4shared is cut.
[Android Themes] david1171:
sorry about that, fixed the link.
[Android Themes] david1171:
well its been a while (6 straight days of work doesn't help theme-ing very much lol) but here is a good sized update. status bar has been re-worked.
[Android Themes] mikey98277:
calander and maps issue

I love the theme, but after put it on my phone today, the calendar was no longer installed on my phone, along with the widget for calendar , other issue is navigate no longer on maps, if those 2 issues get resolved i would love your theme!!
[Android Themes] david1171:
http://www.mediafire.com/?jimenw3nk0d

there is a quick fix for the calendar and widget not working. thanks. i took the home screen screen shots on my back up phone that has dwang on it and the widget worked on it so i didn't think to test it on my normal cyan phone.

did you have the recent market install of the maps.apk? if not, then the maps.apk in this theme is the same one needed to get navigation to work, if you did have the market one, then you will need to rm this one so you can install the market one. if you didn't have the market one, there is a flash pack in the OP for enabling navigation (make sure you have all the other requirements, i don't know what they are, something about google voice i think, i don't need a fancy gps to find where i work, so therefore do not use navigation).

to get rid of the maps.apk in this theme, go to settings, applications, manage applications, and erased stored data and cache and everything else in maps. then boot into recovery and type the following

mount system
rm /system/app/Maps.apk
reboot

then install the maps.apk from the market.
[Android Themes] Jerzeeloon:
does the dwang version have strericsons lockscreen?
[Android Themes] david1171:
It would have to compiled against dwang's source for it to work, so in essence no. If you want to try, nandroid, so in the very likely event it doesn't work, you can go back to working condition easily.
[Android Themes] El Cipitio:
love your theme..but yea how do you flash in the recovery mode?..sorry but im not into this that much
[Android Themes] david1171:
if you have amon_ra's recovery or cyan 1.4 just put it on the root of your sdcard and select any .zip and select the file name.

if you have pre cyan 1.4 then name it update.zip and place on the root of your sdcard and select apply update.zip
[Android Themes] El Cipitio:
got it ..and when are you going to update?
[Android Themes] david1171:
basically when i update to 4.2.7.1. though it seems more and more pointless to post my work with some of the recent comments i have seen from people.
[Android Themes] david1171:
updated to 4.2.7.1, along with a fair amount of graphical edits. may post some new screen shots tonight.
[Android Themes] El Cipitio:
loving the new power control widget thanks man..and could i get the wallpapers?..i wiped my sd card and i dont have them
[Android Themes] david1171:
what wallpapers lol. i don't include any wallpapers. i try to make it so that it can be used with any wallpaper. but i will upload some of my commonly used wallpapers later on tonight.
[Android Themes] evry1sgirl:
Thank you for this theme, David. I am in love....

;-)
[Android Themes] El Cipitio:
well the one the pictures and some more
[Android Themes] secretaznman3:
caviar dream font

Im trying to flash the font through cm recovery 1.4 but when i choose install any .zip from sdcard, itll try to flash but will abort. Ive been trying to do this for some time now. And i love the font
[Android Themes] david1171:
it works for me and i as well am using cyanogen's 1.4 recovery image.

it could be from getting it from mediafire, i had problems trying to get it from mediafire while on my phone. here it is uploaded to this post so hopefully it should work for you now.
[Android Themes] secretaznman3:
Worked! Thanks!
[Android Themes] david1171:
you are welcome. glad it is working for you. that is about the only font i have been able to have on my phone for more then an hour or so.
[Android Themes] Vintoux:
Thank you!

Hi, David. First of all, let me say you themes are by far the classiest on XDA. Beautiful and minimalist. With that said, when I try flashing your theme recently, it gives me some pushback. I'm running Cyanogen's 4.2.7.1, and when I apply the theme I immediately receive an error that says "The process com.google.process.gapps has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again." This force close renders YouTube, Market, Gtalk and Maps completely useless.

Now I'm TOTALLY not a developer in any way, shape or form. In fact, you folks probably judge me as a noob, which is fair. I read instructions as I see them, and follow them-- I assume-- properly. I have NO idea what's going wrong, but I'd really love to get this beautiful theme working. Thanks!
[Android Themes] Jerzeeloon:
Lucky turn 1.7 for dwang 1.13 has stericsons lockscreen,the eclair themed one infact,how come nobody else has one for dwang?
[Android Themes] david1171:
What kind of phone do you have? G1 (dream), mt3g (32b magic), or 32a magic?

Huh? I don't really know what you are talking about?
[Android Themes] jayzusfk:
i kept having the same problem myself. what was worse was that even when i flashed a different theme afterwards i still had the problem. plus, apps wouldn't download in the market.

if i remember correctly i just wiped out the data and cache for Google Apps in settings/applications/manage applications, then reflashed cyan and a different theme. i'll play around with minus again soon to see if i actually fixed it though. i've borked quite a few things lately with trying different roms and themes so it's kinda blurry how i've managed to fix everything.
[Android Themes] david1171:
also, what kind of phone do you have?
[Android Themes] Vintoux:
I'm using MT3G (32B). I thought it was weird, too. And he's right, it's not only YOUR theme, I suppose I should have been more specific. It's when I try to apply a theme onto the already existing ROM.

EDIT: I figured out the issue. I'm an idiot.

I never flashed the root base before flashing the ROM. Terribly sorry about polluting your thread with this nonsense, David. Thanks again for the beautiful theme! (By the way, how much do cup noodles cost, nowadays?)
[Android Themes] david1171:
glad you got it working, sorry for the length of time for my response (had a 15 and a half hour shift that i am still getting over lol), i was going to download the 32b htc image and theme the google apps from that when i got home from work tonight.
[Android Themes] Vintoux:
No problem, David. Yeah, everything's working fine. The only qualm I have is that now I've flashed the theme and everything is in working order, including the beautiful font. However, when I flash the Advanced Launcher, my phone slows down incredibly and I occasionally get a force close on the launcher, something that's never happened before with your themes. I don't know if this is user error (again, haha), but an example is opening even something trivial as the Music application, playing a song, and then going back home. I get the blank screen and it waits for a good minute before everything is loaded. Once again, this could just be me, again, but I find that it's ONLY the advanced launcher that gives me trouble after flashing, if I DON'T flash it everything is perfect. My device has plenty of memory left, and I've uninstalled some intensive applications, still the same problem.
[Android Themes] david1171:
When i get home tonight, i will upload the advanced launcher to 4shared and see if it still does that. The only time i have problems with it is when coming from memory intensive apps .also, do you have keep home app in memory in spare parts because i do and rarely get any problems with it. Look out for an update in 4 or so hours. I have a few new things i need to put up for the base theme anyways.
[Android Themes] jayzusfk:
mt3g w/ cm4271.
[Android Themes] jayzusfk:
to update, i tried the theme again over a previously working cm rom but once again my market was broken. no gapps error so i think that might have been related to either the old navi addon (before the official update) or one of the themed google app addons from the first post. except for not being able to download from the market, everything else looked fine.
[Android Themes] david1171:
i think i may just remove maps from the next release (not todays since i just saw your comment) i do since they have updated it in the market and just included the icon i use for it for bettercut uses.

OP updated
[Android Themes] quierotacobell:
Great theme! Out of all the ones I've seen here, this one actually worked for me lol, the metamorph thing never worked for me for some reason, but whatever. One question I do have is someone else posted it here earlier, don't remember who. It looks like it's the GPS notification, next to the up/down arrow and the E/3G, and I see that GPS is turned off and it's still showing there.
[Android Themes] david1171:
lmao its the vibrate icon. i had an old vibrate icon that that person talked about became my wifi icon. the gps icon is a little satellite lol. sorry for the confusion but since my phone is always on vibrate i wanted an icon i liked for it lol. sorry for the confusion.
[Android Themes] quierotacobell:
-______- Lmao did not think about that, sorry about the confusion. Btw is it weird that I updated to 4.2.8, and THEN applied your theme and it's still working? Because someone told me that a theme for 4.2.7.1 won't work on another version like 4.2.8, sorry if it's a noob question. Thanks for the quick reply! Once again good s*** on the theme!
[Android Themes] quierotacobell:
I'm having the same problems as this guy as well. When I try to update an app, the app keeps showing "Starting Download" in the downloads section of the market, never actually downloads it. Plus tested gmail by sending an e-mail to myself from another e-mail add. and it never showed up on notification. Should I just wipe, flash base, CM then the theme again? I have a G1, 4.2.8.
[Android Themes] david1171:
i haven't flashed 4.2.8. something in the theme and 4.2.8 could be causing the problems. when i update to 4.2.8 (either sunday or monday, depends on work) i will update my theme, so hopefully that should fix the issue.

before going through the hassle of wiping and all of that, try taking the google apps in the htc image and pushing them to system/app while having the app on the root of your sdcard. do this in terminal emulator.

mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cp /sdcard/appname.apk /system/app/appname.apk
reboot (after doing this for all of the apps)

i have noticed the market acting oddly occasionally but it only occurs when i am at work with crappy service, so i don't know if its a cause of the themed market.

if you want a list of the google apps that you need to pull from the htc image and push get the google.zip and get the .apk's in it from the htc image.
[Android Themes] quierotacobell:
Alright I'll just wait for an update cause I'm too stupid to do all that you just said above lol. Good thing I had a backup done before I did all of this. Thanks man.
[Android Themes] quierotacobell:
Alright I tried doing that on Terminal, and I get this error "cp: cannot stat '/sdcard/Gmail.apk': No such file or directory"

I get the same when I try to do it for Market. Gmail and Market seems to be causing the problems, and I know it's not because of crappy service cause before I flashed this theme I downloaded some stuff. Really love this theme and don't wanna use anything else.
[Android Themes] david1171:
the cannot stat error means that it cannot find the file. check and make sure that it is on your sdcard and that Gmail.apk is the exact name of it. also you could do cd sdcard before the cp command then just type cp appname.apk /system/app/appname.apk
[Android Themes] Michaelr219:
could you post/pm a link for your status drop down tab with the diamonds and notification bar (without the icons) pleassseeee... i tried figuring out how to do it myself and im just somewhat inept to some of the intricacies involved lol... so i figured, theres no harm in just asking :)

thanks in advance!!!! im trying to use bits and pieces from other ppls talent for my device and im in love with that pull tab and diamond pattern, an absolute must for my phone!!! :)

ps... im using dwang 1.13, i dont know if that matters at all....
[Android Themes] david1171:
attached to this post. the first is the non-transparent one used as the app drawer background and the second is the transparent one used in the status bar pull down.

sorry, changed them to being in a .zip file since they looked odd when uploaded as .png's to the post.
[Android Themes] Michaelr219:
can you make them into 2 seperate update .zips, or write the command to push it in terminal??? im not too familiar with such things... thanks again for the quick response :)
[Android Themes] david1171:
you will have to place them into the appropriate folder of the respective .apk for each image. the status_bar_background.png will go in framework-res.apk/res/drawable/ and the pattern_carbon_fiber_dark.png will go in launcher.apk/res/drawable/.

you can place those 2 images into those folders and then push them to /system/framework/framework-res.apk and /system/app/Launcher.apk using the general idea from above where i told the other person to push the apk's from his/her sdcard. make sure to reboot immediately after pushing framework-res.apk.
[Android Themes] Michaelr219:
i just did a search on how to do it and came up short... if you could, could you do a "for dummies" instructions... im sure it might help someone else out too... ill keep looking if you cant, youve been more than helpful :cool:
[Android Themes] david1171:
open the .apk's up with 7-zip (what i use)

click the res folder

it will take you to a directory with many folders in it.

the ones you will want to focus on are the ones that start with drawable.

places your images into their respective folders inside of their respective .apk's.

close the .apk when you are done with it.

put the .apk with the your new images on the root of your sdcard.

go to terminal emulator

type in the following (ignore the stuff in parenthesis for typing)

mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system (system has to be mounted as read-write to push stuff to it)
cd sdcard
(for any /system/app)
cp ExactAppName.apk /system/app/ExactAppName.apk
(repeat for how every many apk's you are moving to system/app)
(if you do more then 3 at once i would recommend a reboot)
reboot
(for framework-res.apk, do this one last)
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cd sdcard
framework-res.apk /system/framework/framework-res.apk
reboot

don't really know how to simplify it anymore but still keep it in a context for any general .apk.
[Android Themes] Michaelr219:
sweet, ill have to give this a try when i get home... cause im currently doing it all from the phone... but, is there a way that i can put them both into an update.zip in case i switch roms? its something that i frequently do... thanks again bro... if you ever come up with a red and black version of your theme... id probably use the whole theme and donate... it has a lot of style, very similar to what ive been looking for, but the black and white is a bit too simple on the eyes :) that red really makes it pop on my merlot mt3g... but thanks again, your help has helped me piece together the "perfect" theme for my personal device
[Android Themes] david1171:
actually it would be better to just do that for each framework-res.apk and Launcher.apk that you get from each ROM you use so that there won't be an incompatibility issues.

i have been thinking about throwing some color in there but if i do it will more or less be me borrowing that color from other themes (why i did black and white in the first place really, felt like i would have been just using colors that had already been done over and over) but i think i have finally gone about as far as i am going to with graphical edits that i may put some color into this.
[Android Themes] Michaelr219:
yes!!!

Do a deep red, maybe like a wine-ish color!!! With black, its original and would look awesome, I can help if you'd like... ive been wanting to learn a bit more and I'm a quick learner...
[Android Themes] david1171:
the hardest part about dark red, is the how dark can the red be but still be easily seen against most of the black text throughout android.
[Android Themes] quierotacobell:
I'll try that when I get home. Thanks again.
[Android Themes] Michaelr219:
not too too dark, just not that bright red you see on every other theme :)

oh, question...

i already have the file in my launcher (checked with astro file man)

but for the status_bar... can i do a push command and just swap the png that is embedded in the apk? or is the apk signing an issue with this method? cause i was thinking about how much easier it would be if you could swap it out without having to change the apk to a zip, swap the .png file, then resign the apk, thennnn push, etc....

one last thing... how can i get to my apk file/ pull it from my device? cause im also wanting to eventually pull the whole entire "/" (root?) from my device to my comp... so that i could just pick and pull what i want from the comp and reflash it as one update once i have the perfect build for my theme :)

ive been studying up a little bit on how to build roms, but mostly, i just want to learn how to pick and pull apart the things i like from different ones till i create my own personal build, so i can zip align every apk to the /system and have it running as fast as possible :)
[Android Themes] david1171:
you can't (to my knowledge without using metamorph) replace a single image inside of an .apk on the phone, you need to pull it off and replace it inside of the apk. if you use 7-zip you can open the .apk without needing to change the extension name from .apk to .zip. also if you push like that, then you shouldn't need to resign it.

if you wanted to get your entire /system partition, i guess you could

mkdir /sdcard/system (so as to have a place for it)
cp /system /sdcard/system/ (or something like that i would imagine)
[Android Themes] Michaelr219:
so that script would make a copy of the whole thing onto my sd card?

through terminal right?

ok, now if i wanted to repackage it as an update.zip so i could reflash the whole thing... how would i go about it?
[Android Themes] david1171:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=3339701&postcount=6

thats the post that i read that taught me all of the basics of theme-ing. since from what i gather that somewhat sounds like what you are looking to do. that will set you up on how to sign files and how to explore and replace files easily inside of .apk's.

I imagine that command would make a copy of your system partition but i have not tried it.
[Android Themes] Michaelr219:
ah... yea, im basically trying to figure out how to update my own personal theme anytime an update comes out... so that i run one update and move forward... im just not familiar with the templates necessary for the different builds...

personally im using dwangs 1.13 cause it has the fastest orientation switch for me... and im trying to figure out how to optimize that build with my own theme so that i can flash it once after a fresh wipe and all my favorite apps, etc are attached to the theme...

do you get what i mean? cause the process when i backup and add multiple updates seems to slow down the phone from what ive seen... its usually the fastest on a fresh install... idk tho, this is just my theory, but thanks for the help... youve made the transition from winmo to android a lotttt easier for me :)
[Android Themes] Michaelr219:
oh, also... where are the icons for each apk located? cause i think what im going to do is a combination between your theme and droid red... optimized for my own personal use :)

the plan:

open up a stock dwang 1.14, add in my apk files that i use, swap out the stock theme, optipng and zipalign (i need to read up on this still :rolleyes:)

that way i can have my own personalized version of my favorite rom :D
[Android Themes] Michaelr219:
ok, found the wiki... i think i got it from here... but thanks for your help... im gonna ask opasha too, but when im done... id like to send some screen shots of what my theme looks like... if it is up to your standards, would you care if i post it? if not... i understand... i will of course give all the credit that is due, i just want to be able to give back to this community that has given sooo much to me...
[Android Themes] david1171:
You're welcome, and feel free to post anything of mine you use (unlike some people in the past, no, not aimed at anyone in particular, I am honored to see others use my work).
[Android Themes] G1_Lucky:
Dude this is a great theme, I would say keep it up. But it looks like you already are :)

Lol
[Android Themes] m0nst3rr:
Hey, i noticed in your screenshots that your icons have no text under them, and i was wondering if you could tell me how you did that.

Thanks!
[Android Themes] david1171:
its an option with the advanced launcher on any home screen hit menu->more->extended->home screen and its under there.
[Android Themes] m0nst3rr:
Oh snaps, i feel stupid.

Thanks man!
[Android Themes] david1171:
its cool man.

News for next release (when cyanogen drops a new ROM, might go ahead and start working on dwang's either tonight or tomorrow, i have all the files, its just more or less packaging them all and uploading them)

-there will be 9 colors for it

red

maroon

blue

teal

green

pink

purple

orange

and of course gray/white

the colors won't be on a huge scale because i think that would take away from the overall minimalism, but they will be there whenever you select something so it doesn't seem so "bleak."

-also will try to get new dialer icons

if there are any colors that you would like to see first (as visible from past actions, i like feedback and try to incorporate ideas) let me know and i will work on getting those out fastest (of course after the gray/white, sorry can't leave my roots lmao).
[Android Themes] quierotacobell:
Ok bro I just did that, and still Gmail isn't working, it doesn't auto sync, and tested it out by sending myself an email. Market is giving the same problems also, so I'll just wait 'till you release a version for 4.2.8 then.