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[Defy Themes and Apps] jboogie3:
u must deodex first. have u done so?
[Defy Themes and Apps] Sorensiim:
Nope, Motodev studio downloading as we speak. The sign on my door at work says "IT Operations Specialist", but I haven't done much android hacking. Got a link to a nice step-by-step for de-odexing?
[Defy Themes and Apps] jboogie3:
http://simply-android.com/discussion/591/deodexed-files-tutorial-/#Item_1 made it easy for u guys. Took me awhile to do this
[Defy Themes and Apps] Sorensiim:
Edit: We had a minor snag, Jboogie helped me get it fixed - My Defy is fine!
[Defy Themes and Apps] bergerac81:
I have installed first metamorph and then your theme.

Now i would like to come back with the original theme but i dont know how.

( i have tried with a hard reset without success)

Thanks
[Defy Themes and Apps] Higgsy:
can't you get into bootloader (switch on/vol up) and reflash the sbf? This did work for me, but didn't like it much so reflashed, its just easy to do that and no pissing about.

Prop to Jboogie3 tho at least someones taking the time to put something out there
[Defy Themes and Apps] Sorensiim:
I basically forgot about the bootloader. Props to jboogie for putting the files out there AND helping the retards scewing up their phones :D
[Defy Themes and Apps] bergerac81:
Can you help also me?
[Defy Themes and Apps] jboogie3:
dont know how to flash a .sbf?

Here is a stock defy theme if that what you talking about

http://www.mediafire.com/?h6d8vnvso53a96k

Via metamorph as well
[Defy Themes and Apps] bergerac81:
I have solved after a flash with rsd lite 4.9.

ATTENTION the installation of this theme is a irreversible operation i have risked to bryck my defy
[Defy Themes and Apps] DoubleUPi:
T h a n k y o u ! ! !
[Defy Themes and Apps] jboogie3:
there was no need to flash ... all you had to do was use the stock metamorph i posted if u wanted to go back
[Defy Themes and Apps] HiDef:
My english bad, but i will try. :D

First i want to thank you jboogie3 for your work, the theme is looking really great.

I am completly new to Linux and Android. On simply-android you have posted a link and a tutorial to put the deodexed files to the Defy, till that point i have no problems, but in the comments on sa you have posted a link with to different files (framework-res.apk & services.jar) for the white clock and the white fonts. So, i put this files to the whole archive you have posted before, overwrite the old ones and then i put the whole archive (deodexed_APK & deodexed_JAR) to the defy, is that right?

I ask cause i have the white clock in the right top, but when i push the menu button, there are white icons in the menu, but you cant see the font cause it is black.
[Defy Themes and Apps] walter79:
Nice theme.
[Defy Themes and Apps] jboogie3:
that is correct.. good job u did everything right. the black font on the menu is something im working on fixing. i cant find what i need to edit to make them white
[Defy Themes and Apps] HiDef:
Thank you, the theme is still looking good, also without the missing font in the menu. ;) Looking forward to have a custom rom with this theme built in.

PS: A little nice goodie was the Google Voice Search from the deodexed uk rom files. In my german stock rom before, there was no Voice Search. :D
[Defy Themes and Apps] crazyVII:
can somebody provide some more screens?

thanks a lot :=)

greets :)
[Defy Themes and Apps] kendael:
Hello. Thanks for this theme ! But Tweetdeck FC when clicking a message since I installed this theme.
[Defy Themes and Apps] jboogie3:
Its a theme.... replaces .img in the framework.. thats all....
[Defy Themes and Apps] kendael:
Yes I know it. But it's a fact. Maybe the issue is somewhere else. I've deodexed my Defy with the procedure from simply-android.
[Defy Themes and Apps] Jt612:
I still don't get how you replace the clock colour in the notification bar? my phone is deodexed and such but what now?
[Defy Themes and Apps] pystolero:
We can not install theme from recovery?

I'm feelling bad with metamorph it doesn't want to install on my defy...
[Defy Themes and Apps] breezasib:
I am having trouble with Matamorph as well.

Just sits there forever saying applying framework-res.apk theme....
[Defy Themes and Apps] crazyVII:
i also got no idea how to install this thing :=P...

mine isn't deoxed.. have to check what this is exactly.. a blakc status bar would be great :)

so.. for now.. idle ^^:D
[Defy Themes and Apps] Jt612:
was wondering if you ahve figured out what you had to do to change the font colour of the settings menus and such? as i ahve reverted back to a slightly modified stock theme (ripped out your status bar) but would love to change back if you could fix up the font problem
[Defy Themes and Apps] Alex530:
You could try ninjamorph. It let's you edit icons from the source. You could change the color of the battery and such with it.
[Defy Themes and Apps] bluehangel:
Hello jboogie3,

thanks for this theme, can you share your framework-res.apk included white clock colour ?
[Defy Themes and Apps] Perilla_:
Color font problem in status bar, something fast to fix it?

Edit: Color fonts everywhere are wrong... That looks like good, whats wrong?
[Defy Themes and Apps] Perilla_:
In Stock Defy theme, while recharging, I get a red square in battery icon status bar. Something missing?
[Defy Themes and Apps] superfastmonkey:
Thanks,

I didn't really understand the flashing method of this. All I wanted was a black status bar.

I just went over it and figured out I needed metamorph from the market, I installed busybox too, extracted with metamorph and voila!

Black status bar, with the bonus of gb green and a touch of colour on the screen lock -perfect!!
[Defy Themes and Apps] jjp84:
I got the theme up and running, but am confused to all heck with the deodex (still learning), is that something you have to do with an adb push or is something i can just drop on the sd card?
[Defy Themes and Apps] Perilla_:
Jboogie3, I used your services.jar (from your rom) with this skin, I get white clock, but still a lot of other fonts in the same (or near the same) like the background, doing them unreadable.

What more can I edit to get all the fonts with a good color?

Thanks in advance.
[Defy Themes and Apps] superfastmonkey:
I miss the clock too, and am confused with deodexing...

Will the instructions posted earlier work on an Australian Telstra rom?

Can I just put those commands into a Terminal Emulator app?
[Defy Themes and Apps] crazyVII:
help?

.. get a strange message...

"the theme creator file is missing or wrong written... please contact the autor"

so any ideas? any soluations?

thanks :)

solution 2 posts down
[Defy Themes and Apps] GandalfderWeise:
try to install metamorph and busybox new

and download the theme files again
[Defy Themes and Apps] crazyVII:
thanks for the reply - doesn't work

.. already did so, manually un-installed metamorph and busybox and re-installed.

get it with this theme, and also with the other - original black status bar theme with the green glock ;=) -

i hope android won't become like windows and such "reinstall" stuff will start to work ;=)

so thanks, but doesn't work :=/

found a solution, pick the xml file manually via second button, after metamorph aborted applying the theme first.
[Defy Themes and Apps] crazyVII:
I feel somehow tricked or played because WHY AREN'T U ABLE TO POST SOME REAL SCREENSHOTS?

Great theme, but u could have been so fair an post some ScreenShots of white menu buttons or black option menus as well.

btw. no clock (clear to me) no network bar (not clear at all)

best on this picture there is also a button without an icon in between the lower row
[Defy Themes and Apps] Dodge93:
Looking very nice, except the screen of crazyVII...

btw. Mirror is Down... ;)

new one -> multiupload.com/3PBLZBYYLV
[Defy Themes and Apps] doxas:
Works great for me, thx!
[Defy Themes and Apps] zephyr711:
aha, i am a neophyte here. now,i have changed .rar to .zip, but i still don't know where should i put this .zip in my cell phone, could please show me the way to install this wonderful theme to my defy~ thanks a million~
[Defy Themes and Apps] crazyVII:
Isn't it the same on your devices?

To install extract the downloaded file, open it in metamorph, it starts to extract but finishes with an error message,

After this manually select the xml file in the created folder, done :-) theme applied :-)

Good luck (I created a separate post where I managed to get the same results -no errors - in another way :-))
[Defy Themes and Apps] mrt3k:
Can I delete this theme later if I don't like it or just wanna change it? Can I easily uninstall it using metamporph - without any leftovers or problems?

If so: Nice job! Looks pretty!
[Defy Themes and Apps] shady_lanem:
can i apply this theme on uk froyo base?
[Defy Themes and Apps] Darkcaptain:
I would also like to know, good theme!

THX ;)
[Defy Themes and Apps] merirosvo:
clock is in black :s
[Defy Themes and Apps] sirtagada:
You have the stock theme in the first post if you want to delete the custom theme and install the stock. :)

(sorry for my english, i'm french :P )
[Defy Themes and Apps] Meriu:
Can I apply Milestone/Droid thenes via Metamorph? Anc can I delete Metamorph after applying theme ?
[Defy Themes and Apps] dr4k0:
Stock theme is broken - there is problem when i charge battery. there is no property animation. Battery icon is showing full charge (with ligthning stamp) and then shows red square. Pls fix it or maybe somebody can send me stock uk 2.51 framework-res.apk ??
[Defy Themes and Apps] fritolays:
Will try this out thanks.
[Defy Themes and Apps] brainiak14:
thanks a lot for this new method to change the look of ouf defy, but I have a little problem...

this theme is beautiful exept with the writings... It's often written in black in the stock theme, and the color of the writings doesn't change... And i think it's difficult to read black text on a black background...(for example when you press the settings button on the home page...)

I hope you've understood me as i'm french!

bye
[Defy Themes and Apps] SpawNyK:
Im experiencing the same problem, please give us a FIX !!
[Defy Themes and Apps] jboogie3:
This is a old metamorph for 2.1 uk firmware... I no longer support this
[Defy Themes and Apps] SpawNyK:
Please man, help us, im begging.

Ive got 2.1-update1 Firmware with 251.1 Build nr.

Theres got to be a way. :(
[Defy Themes and Apps] dr4k0:
There is the way to fix it - you need to flash 2.51 rom via RSDlite. Without wipe so you dont lose your settings, apps and data. You should try this topic: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=966537

1. Download drivers and rsdlite

2. install this two .exe

3. turn off defy

4. press Vol up + power

5. Connect usb to pc

5. Wait untill drivers are fully installed

6. Start RSdLite

5. Select sbf

6. Flash Rom

7. Redo root procedure

An thats all you need - everything should work, if not you should make backup of user app in titanium backup, and then wipe phone and restore user app + data.
[Defy Themes and Apps] brainiak14:
I hope you will créateur other themes like this one, it's completely awesome, exept the settings in black on course...

GL!
[Defy Themes and Apps] kbxdauser2011:
is this for Android 2.1 or 2.2 ?

I need some genuine replies from jboogie3 or other experts here

1) is this theme meant for Eclair(2.1) or Froyo(2.2)....i'm currently on stock indian froyo 2.2 & i need to know if the theme will work on this android version?

2) which MetaMorph & busybox version do i need to install this correctly.i have the latest version of both

3)is there any problem with the stock theme that have been updated here & will i face problems if again i revert back to the provided stock theme?

4)Will his work perfectly in unison with other home launchers..i preferably use Go Launcher Ex...& want to know if there would be any clash or difficulties with Go launcher ex?

5) Finally,if this ain't for Froyo 2.2,...will you be making such a good similar theme for froyo or already have?..plz link!

I would be very thankful to those answering!
[Defy Themes and Apps] kbxdauser2011:
bump..no replies for the above..???
[Fascinate General] gurvir19:
I have the Telus 2.2 froyo files for update via odin. How do you get this phone in download mode?
[Fascinate General] gurvir19:
figured out first part...pull out battery....push vol down and then plug into PC..I get download mode but no confirmation from ODIN
[Fascinate General] RacerXFD:
Did you install sammy's drivers on your computer?
[Fascinate General] gurvir19:
nope....let me try that now
[Fascinate General] gurvir19:
got drivers installed and still no go...odin doesnt recognize it....tried diff usb cable as well
[Fascinate General] trojjanhorse:
Hey gurvir, mind sharing the files? Would like to try too. I've used ODIN on vibrant before few times but not on fascinate. Hopefully I would stumble upon something that might help.

Thanks.
[Fascinate General] gurvir19:
got it working....i was using a blackberry micro usb able and switched to the one that came with my galaxy and it works.....very wierd
[Droid X General] emerica243:
Cant figure out for the life of me how to reroot after doing the 340 ota. I came from 2.2 ota.

I tried z4root multiple times, no dice.

Tried the DoRoot Automatic script. Didnt fully work.

Tried the manual method on the phone with term emu.

Tried the manual method...and im getting stuck here...

Factory Reset and did it all AGAIN... So annoyed

Mod note from Sleuth

Wispirer figured this out further down in the thread. It has to do with different versions of the superuser apk file confusing z4root. His post is here

nicely done btw :)

end mod note

[*] Searching for adb ...

[+] Found adb as PID 6025[*] Spawning children. Dont type anything and wait for reset![*][*] If you like what we are doing you can send us PayPal money to[*] 7-4-3-C@web.de so we can compensate time, effort and HW costs.[*] If you are a company and feel like you profit from our work,[*] we also accept donations > 1000 USD![*][*] adb connection will be reset. restart adb server on desktop and re-login.

$

C:\Users\matt\Desktop\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools>adb kill-server

C:\Users\matt\Desktop\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools>adb.exe devices

* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *

* daemon started successfully *

List of devices attached

015A9D7E1303301A device

C:\Users\matt\Desktop\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools>adb shell

$ mount -o rw,remount -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system

mount -o rw,remount -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system

mount: Operation not permitted

$
[Droid X General] Sleuth255:
z4root sat for 5-10 minutes on "running exploit" when I ran it. Others have also reported this.
[Droid X General] emerica243:
I experiened that ONCE too, but i pulled the battery after a few minutes since it went through the full process so many times before.
[Droid X General] emerica243:
anyone any ideas?
[Droid X General] mistergreentree:
same problem here...can't get root back yet
[Droid X General] milan616:
Just to make sure, when you guys are rooting you have USB debugging on, yeah?
[Droid X General] Sleuth255:
Also, does 1click root work? Several DX flavors. Check the Wiki. Link in DX android development.

Some questions:

What precisely happens when you try to use z4root? Give me the step by step.

Can you get temporary root with z4?
[Droid X General] emerica243:
It goes through the whole process, says its rooting, getting shell, etc, goes white for a second, says rebooting, come back up and no root. And nope, tried both options.
[Droid X General] sipdrone:
Same here. The main thread about the update says it can take as many as 10 tires. I'm on about #5. we'll see.
[Droid X General] emerica243:
That doesnt quite make any sense to me....
[Droid X General] serka2:
Same thing is happening to me, z4root says using exploit, acquiring root shell, goes to white screen then goes back and says rebooting. After it reboots still no root.

Tried 1 click method and it hangs at performing the rage command. Manually tried rooting and after applying the ./rage it kicks me off like its supposed to then says my device isn't found when I do adb devices command.
[Droid X General] emerica243:
Yup, Same. I even factory reset twice.
[Droid X General] Sleuth255:
Interesting. I have both copies of the update.zip. I did notice that they were slightly different in size. I used the very first one that was posted. I'm gonna do a quick hex compare to see if they're the same...

edit: uh oh, the two update files are totally different. The original one is slightly larger and HexCMP finds no similarities after the first 1K or so. The one I used had a size of 26,358. The other, more recent one has a size of 26,259.
[Droid X General] emerica243:
So whats that mean exactly? Two versions of OTA were pushed out? One rootable and one not?
[Droid X General] Sleuth255:
It sure looks like there's two different sizes and a hex compare shows significant differences. Take a look at your update.zip. What is the precise size? If everybody who can't root has a size of 26,259 then the validity of your thought is supported.

Remember, the original update only went out to a special beta test group and then was quickly pulled. The one I used was that update.
[Droid X General] emerica243:
Where do i find the update.zip file? I did the ota update
[Droid X General] Sleuth255:
Review the Droid X 2.3.340 Update thread in this forum. Good history about this update there including the information you seek.
[Droid X General] Liquidretro:
I tried to root with Sil3ntK1ll Root X 2.2 and it looked like it was taking until about 3/4 of the way it said waiting for device. I left it for 5 min and it was then locked up solid. I had to pull the battery and reboot. No ill effects after the reboot but I am not rooted.

So I assume the root authors are already hard at work on fixing this issue?
[Droid X General] eion:
same story as everyone else, had root, did update, cant get it back
[Droid X General] serka2:
Found this method, hxxp://forum.androidcentral.com/motorola-droid-2/40283-how-root-droid-2-without-computer.html (note: change x's to t's) and lo and behold it worked! Did from top to bottom and now back to being rooted. Hopefully this method works for you guys.
[Droid X General] emerica243:
Tried it, but when i do this command i get PERMISSION DENIED

cp /sdcard/rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin /tmp/
[Droid X General] Lonman06:
I have literally tried EVERYTHING to root and still a no go. I hope someone can come out with a fix so I can obtain root, I am not familiar with more complicated things such as SBF and don't want to mess up my phone. :(
[Droid X General] bigblok403:
I could not root using Z4root or any one click solutions after the update either. I was able to finally re-root using terminal emulator with the battery pull solution described earlier in the post.
[Droid X General] emerica243:
what battery pull solution?
[Droid X General] bigblok403:
The one described in the link by serka2 where you have to pull the battery after using the terminal emulator to run root.
[Droid X General] emerica243:
Oh, well i dont have any permissions to cp the files to /tmp/ thats where im stuck
[Droid X General] Meteoro7:
And im here trying to update my from 2.2. To new update maybe i better not update. It downloads but installation fails. I have tried 3 times. I don't even like football. Lol. But i do use wireless conection. But hopefully guy they ll find the solution. To get ure phones back to be rooted.
[Droid X General] mistergreentree:
I got mine rooted by downloading the 2.3.340 System Updater from TBH site

I then just installed zip from clockwork recovery and ran the z4root app and all is well!

I only installed the system updater file...none of the others because they came with my ota update...

Hope this helps!
[Droid X General] yzf600:
I was able to get z4root to work. All I did was started the app with the phone unplugged, waited a minute or two, then plugged the phone into my computer. Not long after plugging it in, z4 said the patch was installed and it rebooted. I'm now rooted.
[Droid X General] BBJohnnyT:
I also had success re-rooting with z4root after installing 340 OTA. First it failed because it got stuck on the "running exploit in order to obtain root access" screen for several minutes. So I rebooted by phone (and pulled the battery for a few seconds) and this time selected the Unroot option first (you get the Unroot option only if z4root thinks you're rooted). Even though I wasn't rooted, I guess it had junk left over, maybe because I rooted using a different method before. Unrooting completed successfully. Then I rebooted my phone again (pulled the battery again), fired up z4root and selected "Permanent Root". That completed and I'm now a happy rooted camper again with the latest 340.
[Droid X General] wispirer:
Re Rooting Droid X with OTA 2.3 - Hybrid Method

Instructions for Rooting Droid X after OTA update, or fixing an "Unable to reroot Droid X after OTA", or Rooting Droid X with OTA 2.3.

OK, got it. Nothing else worked for me.

I had the same issue as many of you. I rooted my 2.2 with doroot and adb. I then OTA updated to 2.3.340.MB810 yesterday. (interestingly the first try for the OTA failed - download was successful, but the actual update on reboot failed. I had to try again and it seemed to download more the second time, then updated successfully). This gave me the updated 2.3 unrooted. It also left the old doroot Superuser.apk in my /system/app folder. This conflicts with the SuperUser.apk that Z4 is trying to install. (note the cap U) You can't just simply remove the older one as you don't have root once you upgraded and therefore don't have rw for the system folder!

Use the first half of the info from here: hxxp://forum.androidcentral.com/motorola-droid-2/40283-how-root-droid-2-without-computer.html (xx to tt) This was posted earlier here. (kudos to the appropriate folks - I'm not taking credit)

Use the instructions down to the mount line including downloading the rar. You only need to extract and copy the "rageagainst...bin" over to your SD. Then execute the step by step instructions as written. This includes killing terminal and starting it again. Do the mount line. Stop after the mount line and before you do the copy stuff.

This will give you a terminal with the system mounted as rw. You can now simply cd to the /system/app and rm the old Superuser.apk using your terminal.

Once this lower case Superuser.apk is gone you can successfully run Z4 again.

Make sure your Z4 isn't running (kill it if necessary). Then run it. This will run correctly now - run it as permanent. You should see it get stuck, and a root permission will pop up. Choose allow, then if Z4 isn't continuing, run it again. This will pop up and say completing install.

Reboot.

You should now have root with the new Z4 SuperUser.apk

This worked for me when nothing else did.

Good luck

Typical Disclaimer: I'm not responsible for you bricking your phone. Follow all instructions to the T. Proceed at your own risk. If you don't know or are unsure, google first, ask second, try third.
[Droid X General] djzachtyler:
Sweet!!!

To the poster above... thanks for the detailed outline... after 3 days of struggling I finally see that I have root back!!!

Thanks to everyone who contributed in this thread!!!
[Droid X General] wispirer:
No problem - glad I could help. I would have posted all the steps in my entry, but I did not know if that would offend the original sources.
[Droid X General] floydiannyc:
I don't understand what you mean when you say:

"You can now simply cd to the /system/app and rm the old Superuser.apk using your terminal."

By the way, after the mount line, my emulator gave me a message saying "mount: Operation not permitted"
[Droid X General] jer1230:
Another satisfied customer

Thanks to OP, found your instructions via search just before attempting update and had to use them to get root back. Confirmed works on already rooted Vzn Droid X going to 2.3.340 sys update.