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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slaman:
Two things:

First, make sure your USB settings are set to Samsung Kies and not to "Ask on Connection" or anything else...

Second, I plug in my phone... wait for the PC to detect it, THEN launch Kies... don't open Kies until your PC detects the phone (you can verify by seeing if it shows up in File Explorer)

There is a bug with the MTP Application on our phones... going to be posting a thread about it shortly.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abhishek.vij:
^^ Thanx for the help...

But this tip also didn't work out for me :(

My PC detected the phone just fine, but when i open KIES it never changes from the Connecting status :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] P1azer:
I've tried these tips:

-let Windows (7 32b) download all drivers

-reinstall Kies (5 times)

-manually install MTP drivers

-delete all files longer 16 characters (on both SDs)

-WIPE Phone and format both SDs

-Reinstall Kies drivers (automatically in left upper menu bar)

-connect usb and choose other connection like "mass storage" (after that kies recognize connection what is strangest thing)

-try 3 versions of KIES

...still same result.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mjay9090:
Yup I know how all of you are feeling, I have the same problems too.

KIES really is nothing but a pain in the @SS!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abhishek.vij:
Just to add to the fixes that i have tried.

- Changed com port from 9 to 12 of GT-I9000 Device - Didn't Help

- Tried Connecting from 4 different USB Ports - Didn't help

Version of MTP Drives for windows 7 64-bit is (6.1.7600.16385) 6/21/2006 , can someone please confirm if this is the latest thing ? Also for those using windows 64-bit, if KIES is working then what is the driver version and date ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fulcrum1971:
Just loaded windows once again. Installed Kies and then updated Kies to the latest version. The version for use drivers it shows is 1.3.950.0. Before re installing windows I had 1.3.450.0 which I had downloaded from xda. Do you have winamp installed. Try removing it. I had a problem with it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidis57:
Unmount external. Format internal and mount internal. Than try it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abhishek.vij:
@david : I have already tried that, it didnt work :( . Thanx for the suggestion though :)

@fulcrum : Going to check drivers, will report back.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidis57:
I feel your pain. I got it to work and did the upgrade. It worked great except it was 2.1 update-1 and it was that after. However, the phone works better. Go figure.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hennes000:
try this fix.

1)remove any external memory card

2)on your phone, navigate to the DCIM folder, and there should be a thumbnail folder.

3)delete all the thumbnail. files. they should have a white background.

4)connect to kies :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abhishek.vij:
@hennes : thanx for the suggestion m8 :) , we have already tried that ( its the 16 char limit thingy) .

Today i am going to reinstall my Windows 7- 64bit. If it doesn't work this time then i am going to abuse the chimps @ samsung FB page.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fulcrum1971:
I like your spirit Abhishek. Have given them a piece of my mind too. Guess these guys on fb themselves don't know what's going on. Must be a guy just sitting on a pc and replying.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] msri3here:
@Abhishek...I had the exact same problem.

I tried this method and it worked:

1. Go to Device manager.

2. You'll most probably see a problematic device --> GT-I9000.

3. Uninstall drivers for that device while your phone is connected to the PC.

4. Disconnect your phone and reconnect it in Kies mode.

5. Let windows search for the drivers and install them.

Once the installation completes successfully, your phone will be detected by Kies.

In case windows is unable to find the updated drivers, try installing them manually.

Hope this helps...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] P1azer:
Abhisnek: I deside to put FroYo to my device trough odin and it works great.Im running on Doc FroYo right now.Result in quadrant are more than 200 points higer and it fixed many issues. If your phone have recovery than i recomend you do that too.I dont need kies any more.

Sent from my GT-I9000
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abhishek.vij:
thnx for the reply p1azer :)

I am just waiting for samsung india to release froyo then i can get it from there servers and use that.. i want to try replacing the Phone for GPS issue by claiming warranty :D.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pepeofaustin:
Hello, does anyone know the progress status for HDMI out. I would love to play AVI videos through the RockPlayer app.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RTC88:
You already can play avi files through rockplayer.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CheesyNutz:
q&A !!!!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pepeofaustin:
you can use hdmi out when you play an avi file through rockplayer? can you tell me how...
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] _calum_:
24.03.2011: Added a link to the themes section and added my last post here for a while (maybe ;)):

This thread was opened to consolidate the information/knowledge about themes for the x10. It is basically a reference thread with key bits of information and links so that a new user can find all the necessary information in one place. At the moment this is spread out all over the place, there are a lot of different threads with different bits of information, and the lack of updates in Draken Korin’s sticky makes it pretty hard to find new information. It should also help us avoid the old ‘where the hell was that image…?’ and ‘where was that … thread again?’.

Please PM me or post any useful information that is missing, especially the OPs of the threads in the Themes section below. I will continually update this thread with any new information or links.

All useful information that is posted here will be added to this first page, so that you don't have to wade through pages of posts to try and find something. Everything after the first page should therefore either be repeated on this page somewhere or is just conversation. Please yell at me should this not be the case :)

Please help me out by posting information, ideas etc.

Creating Themes for the x10

:

1. Getting Started

2. Using ADB

3. Creating a theme

4. Modifying XML files and adding resources

5. Modifying Services.jar

6. Timescape/Mediascape

7. Resource locations

8. Theme collection

9. Recovery tips

Change log

14.11.2010 - Added section 4

18.11.2010 - Updated section 3 with a complete guid for modifying .9.png's

25.11.2010 - Updated section 7 with text color locations in the xml files

21.12.2010 - Added a link to MrRusch's tool to section 4

24.12.2010 - Added link to 2.1 Sources to section 5
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] _calum_:
Getting Started

Before getting started on a theme you'll need to set a few things up. Here's a list of everything you'll need:

Root. Your phone will need to be rooted

Java SDK (JDK). You'll need to install the JDK (and JRE) before you can start modifying the contents of your phone. Check out this video of Chewitts if you're having problems on x64 systems.

ADB (from the Android SDK). You need ADB to push/pull files to and from your phone (see the next post)

X10 Drivers. The drivers are usually installed if you install SEUS. Sometimes however you may need to do a manual installation (from my experience mainly on Win7 x64 machines).

The easiest way to make sure everything is set up properly is to install someone elses theme. Check out this post (1.6) or this post (2.1) for instructions.

After you've done all that take a look at this.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] _calum_:
Have you installed someone elses theme yet? If not then go directly to jail, do not pass GO and do not collect £200 :p

Using ADB

There's an ADB Guide here (thanks to XPeriaX10iUser for having this in his sig :)): ADB, Fastboot, and Nandroid for Noobs

Before you start need to unsecure the shell. Use the following adb commands to do this if you haven't already (to reverse it do chmod 0755... thanks XperiaX10iUser :)):

adb shell
su
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock2 /system
chmod 4755 /system/bin/sh

This is all described in the links posted in the Getting Started section above ;)

Thanks to MrRusch for making our lives easier with this tool. For those of you new to this, you should still read the guide linked above so that you know what is actually going on.

Here's a step by step for pulling the framework from your phone and pushing it back. The original post is here. The boot animation mod at the bottom is for 1.6. In 2.1 it is found in system/media/bootanimation.zip.

@gavriel18: I hope it's OK to use this here, if not then let me know.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] _calum_:
Timescape/Mediascape

Timescape and Mediascape use a different format for some of the images (for mediascape it's just the background on the first page). Timescape also has some animation files to control the wave in the background and the color of the paginator. In 1.6 we can modify all of these, for 2.1 I still haven't got the animations sussed.

All of the information I have collected, including tools for converting the images, can be found here (the 2.1 converter tools are linked at the top of the first post).

If you're just looking to modify the first page of mediascape then it is here: /system/usr/semc/seee/files/ms_bg_background_home_icn.acet

Here are the two dark themes that I have done for Timescape:

1.6

2.1 (without animations)

and the following themes also include Timescape mods:

Dark10 by Chewitt

Enigma by Mobzter
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] _calum_:
Resource locations

Images:

gavriel18 has posted some of the standard mods here.

XML:

I have attached some images where you can see the effects of changing the most common colours in res/values/colors.xml. It looks pretty horrible, but you can see what you need to change ;)

I still haven't figured out how to change some of the colours (e.g. the network provider text in the status bar) but I will update this when I find out more...

Please PM me or post any other mods that you've made that were well hidden. We can add them here to avoid searching for them again later.

This especially applies to all the OPs from the next post :)
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] _calum_:
Theme collection

Update (24.03.2011): There is a much more up-to-date list here with all the new themes.

Here's a list of some of the existing themes around:

2.1:

Dark10 by Chewitt

X10 Res Mods by XperiaX10iUser

ElementaL by Mr_Element

Pitch Black by Shukla

Xdre4m by PoTi_96

PGFX™ Eternity by SEMPITERNAL

Transparent Status Bar Theme by thefunkaygibbon

HTC Sense and Stock Android Status Bar by dk2000zx

Enigma by Mobzter

1.6:

Dark10 by Chewitt

Frankendroid by Bazza1976

Enigma by Mobzter

Red Theme by djsystem

There's also a lot more here thanks to gavriel18

If I have missed any please PM me or post here and I'll update the list. I just scanned the first 3 pages in the forum.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] _calum_:
Recovery tips

This post will be used for tips etc. on recovering your phone if it won't boot (if this never happens to you then you're not trying hard enough ;) )

From here:

From here:

from bitter personal experience :):

Not directly related, but here's a tip from XperiaX10iUser:

To reverse chmod use 0755 instead of 4755.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] The-Lord:
This would indeed be helpful. Thanks.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] nekkidtruth:
This definitely needs to be sticky'd! It beats looking over pages and pages worth of threads to find the correct ones. It's a lot harder to search through threads without getting completely creative with your search strings so as to cull out all of the useless threads.

Thanks for this! I just posted about a theme I'd like to work on and requested this information!
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] _calum_:
Thanks for the feedback guys :)
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] SXUsr:
Great thread! Why on earth the mods haven't thought to sticky this is beyond me. :rolleyes:
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] mrtim123:
great thread Callum!

i vote yes for sticky also!
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] urs74:
Thanks for all the hard work _calum_ and all the other themers too!
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] sam_a200:
Thank you for this Ultimate theme reference thread... It definitely should be sticky.... :)
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] egzthunder1:
As I told you the other day... because we cannot be monitoring every single thread in this site...

Also, we only do stickies upon request...

In either case, great guide.

Thread stuck.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] _calum_:
Thanks :)

And thanks for all the other posts as well. Now you guys just need to tell me what's missing ;)
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] hush66:
I've always wanting to create my own theme but with the various instructions embedded in so many threads, the lazy in me just gave up on searching for the info.

Now, thanks to _calum_, there are no more excuses! :D
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] benseoul:
Thank you for all :D
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] peter.neilmann:
Thanks for this.. very useful!
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] djmuxi:
Thank you

Thank you.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Realorasz:
Sorry but none of this is really clear for me. Some times i dont know what I'm supposed to be entering a command into, and sometimes theres some file mentioned that i do something to and i end up going to the wrong one.

Also, there don't seem to be instructions for mrrusch's tool. I may need some, because recompiling a framework-res apk from the folder I made, named framework-res.apk(but not actually a zip) i tell the tool to recompile it and all the tool does is make a new folder.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] MrIT:
verynice.

download and tries now.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] sathurnn:
I use apkmanager, try it!
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] staromoden:
Thank you.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] albuster:
thank you, good to know.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] himanthaj:
Looks amazing.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] mstira:
thankssssssssssss
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Rotweiler:
Really great tuto. Thanks man!
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] yunuss.10:
thank you :)
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] zahid33:
Thank you dude
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] zahid33:
nice themes thanks for sharing
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Realorasz:
I need help, I must be a noob. When I go to recompile the apk, after making the bright_forground_ bla for the menu font into white for a black BG, when i type the command into the cmd prompt I get the txt file attached(copypaste from prompt)
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] bentoKG:
merci baucoup
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] VAHID_RIP:
good work ;)
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] lestet:
thanks - obrigado
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] veggalamvenu:
thanks a lot... you rock
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] _calum_:
Just want to say thanks to everyone for your feedback. Sorry, that I can't help with problems anymore, my X10 is no longer in use.

Cheers,

Calum
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] SXUsr:
Well thanks for everything Calum, I still use your de and recompliler today and this thread helped me a lot. :)

XperiaX10iUser ;) :D
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] KenLeeHu:
It's nice theme, thanks bro !
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] _calum_:
:) Good to see you're still around - albeit with a new name ;)
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] anaireg:
Is there a blue theme for ginger?
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] imdevender:
awesome.........
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Hakim Rahman:
this blue ginger theme ~ http://www472.megaupload.com/files/205242331c32e64e800c8f7598cd5ae4/DH2311's BlueGinger.zip
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] CodenameZeus:
Wow thanks man I seriously needed this. Thanks :D
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] eldani19:
thanks!
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Zolox7:
Thanks Bro
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] sis12:
Thanks man
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] jerasimo:
after coping the res folder to the original apk the size of the apk goes from 8mb to 14mb. is this mormal?:confused:
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] pvyParts:
It has to do with the compression of the files. Pretty normal.

Pvy
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] ujjwal.kanth:
X10 Mini Pro User :(

Will this work for X10 Mini Pro ???
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] _calum_:
Should do, can't confirm anything though. All the adb and image modification stuff will be the same. The drivers will of course be different for the mini pro, and some of the images/xml files may also be named differently. I'd definitely back everything up before messing with the resource.arsc file or any xml's ;)

If you start messing with anything please post back with anything that you find to be different with the mini pro.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] hrm5023:
Awesomn... Thank you..

With your help I just did some pretty funky stuff that made me feel proud of myself..
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] _calum_:
Nice :)

I was hoping this might help some people pluck up the courage to mess about a bit more ;)
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] QuentinCosta:
yeah and you hit it... thx a lot, great work
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] atanu89:
Thanks so much _calum_! ive been really sceptical and scared to do any of this hardcore theming stuff but now I have this awesome thread as a reference and guide to move foreward with my ideas!

:D
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] gavriel18:
Great job calum! Its great to have all this info consolidated. Thanks :-)
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] _calum_:
Thanks guys.

@gavriel18: Thanks for all of your work, without that this would have taken a lot longer.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Geronimo.X10:
This is very useful:)
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] _calum_:
I just updated section 5 (post 6) with some pretty interesting stuff. I think I've got the whole text color this sussed and found a way to easily find most modifications in the xml files by looking at the decompiled smali code from services.jar. I haven't tested anything yet as my super circle went right down to 0% before and I don't have a charger, but I'll be on the case in 5-6 hours.

And once again, thanks for all the positive feedback :)
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] jase81:
great work as always calum , i jus changed the values in the framework to get mine red lol
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] _calum_:
sweet :)

Thanks for that jase, now I don't need to test it right away, and I can get on with showing the signal strength in the notification bar.

I will get back to writing it all up properly though. And I'll look into modifying the smali so we can change individual bits of text.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] mezo9090:
This thread is epic !
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] _calum_:
Thanks man :)

I thought it just cost me my phone though - had my first real scare... black screen, no SE logo, and this after 5 "successful" flashes.

Back on 1.6 at the moment, but my phone's still with me :breathesahumongoussighofrelief:

EDIT: If anyone does mess their phone up so much that not even the SE logo shows up (just a black, maybe flickering, screen). Then what sorted me out was a reflash to Generic Nordic 1.6 using jerpelea's flash tool - the same one I used to get the 2.1 update.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] _calum_:
Back up and running now, phew :o

I just messed around with the smali code a little bit (just a small change to see if the phone was OK with me messing with services.jar).

I basically added a new text style to the resources in the framework.apk (with blue text) and changed the standard text for the status bar to green. I then changed the ID of the style used for the clock to the new style in the smali code for the status bar. I'll write it all up properly with a step by step sometime soon, but I just thought I'd let people know.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] jase81:
glad ya phone is k :) , nice 1 calum i tried messing with the services.jar but was way over ma head there lol :D
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] shivenjuneja:
bro ur tutorial is awesome m facing problem in compiling . when i compile the decompiled version its not making a new apk you can check and plz tell me where is the problem. i used MrRusch custom framework decompiled it thn compiled it m getting errors you can check in the log.txt file attached .. thanks looking forward for your reply.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] _calum_:
At the bottom of the log file there is "... 11 more". Did you write that or did it come from the console? I sorta need the 11 more to see what's happening but looking at what you've got some file is missing. It may just be a problem with the working folder path. try putting everything in c:\apktool or similar so that there are no spaces, and make sure you define the output directory as well.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] _calum_:
Just another update. I've added a guide to editing .9.png's which, IMO, is easier than the previously linked thread.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] _calum_:
Another update :)

I have updated the xml section to include an example of modifying the status bar text by adding xml resources. I have also updated the services.jar section with a step by step on how to modify just the clock color in the status bar without modifying the notification text.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] AyDee:
Thanks for all of the info- especially the .9.png stuff, I was always unclear on how those work exactly. I would use the draw9patch.bat but with mixed results since I would just patch any .9.pngs I edited in photoshop and some of them would have the edges edited...

I would love to see a list of the images and where they show up in the osd. Like a map or legend... I know that's a huge task but maybe just for the main/obvious stuff in framework-res to begin with & go from there? A few screenshots of the main screens with the images labeled would be awesome. I can contribute what little I know so far...

Also, it seems like a lot of images in framework-res are never used (at least by me). A list would save from editing images will never be seen.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] _calum_:
That's a nice idea. I was hoping to slowly get a list together for section 7. But a bunch of image maps would be a lot easier to describe and easier to read.

Soooo..... off you go ;) start up ShootMe and get us started :D

That goes for the rest of you too :p I'm hereby delegating this to all the people out there that actually make the themes :)
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] AyDee:
Aw man me an my big mouth :p

I'll see what I can do. I haven't really done a full theme or even enough to warrant a thread yet due to lack of time as it is... I'll do some of what I know late tonight or tomorrow. Anyone else Please feel free to do the same. (you too _calum_ ;))

I wouldn't ditch the list just yet...

& I have a feeling that as soon as we really get going on this a stable custom rom will be available :rolleyes:

Certainly not complaining there though!
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] _calum_:
Hate to disappoint you, but the only png's I've modified are in the recent calls apk... a grand total of 8 images modified :p (and a couple of .9's to test the theory)

I could make a note but in that apk there's only 14 images in total :D
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] lidus69:
Good morning!

If somebody could translate sometimes please these instructions with the Theme into the German and here please posten!

Greetings Lidus
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] _calum_:
Hi,

I don't really have time to translate the whole thing. If you PM me with the bits that you need I will see if I can do them. You'll just have to correct my grammer ;)

german:

I' han koi Zoit, des gonze auf deitsch zu schroiba. Du kannschd' mir ab'r a PM schicka mit denna Toile die du brauchschd, dann guckam'mol ob ich die macha ka'. Du musschd dann die Grammatik korrigiera.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] lidus69:
OK, Thanks, I will do and Sorry for my bad English!
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] _calum_:
No worries :)

EDIT: Sorry for my bad schwäbisch