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[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Jonathon Grigg:
For all the FC issues with the status bar, I took SystemUI from my current CM7 installation so it could be something to do with that. If needed, I can try to have a fully separate stock branch, ie everything is taken from stock / axura to help with compatibility?

This is why I was thinking of a rom, maybe it would make a better experience? I don't mind what it would be based on, my current test version for myself is based off Frank's wonderful NScollab, but stock is also in the mix for a possibly more stable option (but less advanced options from CM7)

Thanks for the add to the post kenvan, ill check it out later. Just maybe put in there something about it being a work in progress and also currently works best on CM7.

I will try and fix the FC issues this afternoon (my time) as well as add an accurate battery mod.

Sent from my Nexus S
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] kenvan19:
I actually already made sure to say that. So's your don't have to go and dig it up here is the entry:
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Jonathon Grigg:
Ok, currently working on 1.2 right now, starting from scratch to ensure best compatibility.

I will make a dedicated stock version, using fully stock files as a base, as well as a CM7 based one. That way there should be no errors when using unity with stock/MoDaCo and hopefully Axura.

I'm going to include everything I currently have, as well as an accurate battery mod, and maybe a few more themed files in SystemUI.apk and framework-res.apk. I will attempt to add more things from the to do list in future versions, this is mainly for compatibility and the battery.

I will need stock, MoDaCo and Axura testers just to make sure things work fine for them. Please let me know if you can help! It would be appreciated, and I'm sure others will also benefit too :D

Finally, is it just me or is UOT Kitchen down? It always shows one of those new webserver messages. I was just going to have a look at some of the battery mods there, but I will make them manually if needed.

If 1.2 is not done in the next hour and a bit, I will probably have run out of time and it will be up tomorrow arvo. Thanks for all your patience, and I'm sorry that so far it's mainly been a CM7 only theme, hopefully this solves it.

JG
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Jonathon Grigg:
Update on 1.2.0

I've decided not to include the accurate battery mod in this version, I'm too tired, and cant really be bothered to right now. Maybe on the weekend when I'm rested up more, and have read up a bit more on them etc. I know they're not that hard, but I want to get it right.

That said, 1.2.0 also includes custom animations in framework-res.apk; Flip. I am just about to test them out now, and then I will create the update.zip and upload for everyone. I think I have successfully created 2 fully separate branches, to iron out any bugs, so stock/Axura users, rejoice! ;)

Edit: not exactly happy with how the flip animation looks, thinking of switching it to the fly in one. Any other suggestions for nice looking animations?
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] nickwarn:
nice work Jonathon. its working great now no force closing of anything. Your absolutely right about animations, they dont look good. I would rather not have them, maybe you could put them as addon zip to download for thoose who want them. Maybe i could ssuggest that the dropdown menus edge( the place where you put the orange) would change to the same blue thats on the icons( market, message, phone and market). Also the browser icon is in wrong colour. Nice work i love it
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Jonathon Grigg:
Sure, the animations are annoying me now, I will remove them in the next update either today or tomorrow, along with adding a H icon in the stock branch.

Ill see what other colours suit the notification shade, but that blue you are talking about is probably left over from either an old theme of yours or Axura. Its meant to work best from a stock look, so Axura will probably have a few of those issues, but hopefully it will get better as the theme gets more complete.

Anyway, I'm glad it works fine now, just needs a bit of fine tuning.

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[Nexus S Themes and Apps] kenvan19:
I believe you're absolutely right about the left-over icons etc from old themes. Its sort of a silly problem for people who use heavily themed...themes. I think the most notorious culprit currently out there is MattedBlues. So many of the stock icons are themed by Jabba which really helps make the theme come together but also makes it look a little silly for anyone making a drastic shift in theming. The only way to combat it would be to include stock apps in your theme or to advise people to reflash their rom before flashing the theme.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Jonathon Grigg:
Add that to the 'for' list of why a custom themed rom would be good for simplicity :p I'm actually going to start on one when I get some time, base it off stock for maximum stability and I have a few new speed ideas up my sleeve. It will also help me to understand the Android platform better, so hopefully this theme can get even better. That said, it will be something for myself until I feel it is ready, uploading 90+mb for each update is ridiculous with my speeds. I won't stop working on the theme though, they will be supplementary.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] kenvan19:
I'm happy to proffer my nexus s as a Guinea pig if you need ;)

Sent from my MattedBlues CM7 Nexus S from the XDA Premium app.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] nickwarn:
yes , ofcourse they are leftovers, there always is. The theme will never look the same on stock as on Axura unless you theme them. Its not so important. I just saw the picture in my head and it looked nice. But I understand its a massive task, because you would have to maintain 3 different themes if you wanted to have the exact same look for every rom. By the way Your work is appreciated
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Jonathon Grigg:
Just an update on the state of things right now. This afternoon I was working on the accurate battery mod and also removing the animations from framework-res.apk. It seemed to be fine, however upon testing my phone became stuck in a bootloop, even after I reflashed the default framework-res.apk again.

For this reason, the next version WILL BE DELAYED until I sort out this major issue (it gets to the lockscreen then just reboots over and over). Thanks for bearing this in mind, I just really don't want to release something half-assed that could potentially annoy new users if they didn't realise it.

If anyone has had this issue before when themeing, please let me know and how you fixed it. I noticed lots of FC when I did manage to unlock the device for a second or two before the reboot. It's quite possibly a complier error or something along those lines.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] kenvan19:
Interestingly enough, I have had that exact issue when trying to push a framework-res.apk with an accurate battery. Sadly, I can't shed light on how to fix it but I'd look there to see if there was an issue.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Jonathon Grigg:
I used the images from an extracted UOT kitchen battery mod but put together my own modded version of the XML files, trying to avoid the UOT issues with nandroids. I will muck around with different possibilities tomorrow arvo to try and find the cause, then see what can be done to fix it.

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[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Jonathon Grigg:
Thanks very much Sonny, but just one question. Why would you need the zzz_stat_sys_battery_1 XML if you have the regular stat_sys_battery XML file? They both appear to be the same.

Anyway thanks for getting back to me somehow :p I managed to find the files and the stat_sys_battery is the exact same as mine. I'm not sure about the charging one though, ill check later.

Edit: just with the XML change nandroid issues, would this be the case for ROMs like Axura that have been 'themed' by default?

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[Nexus S Themes and Apps] sonnysekhon:
The zzz_stat_sys_battery_1 has something to do with the resources.arsc but not exactly sure what it is. But it's definitely needed :).

I haven't tried modifying AXURA but I can almost guarantee that the Nandroid issue will persist as it has nothing to do with the ROM and is a discrepancy in the clockwork recovery for the Nexus S.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Jonathon Grigg:
I will definitely include the zzz one, that could well be the issue. Thanks for pointing it out!

What I meant by Axura is if you took a Nandroid after a fresh install etc. If you restored that, would you get the issues?

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[Nexus S Themes and Apps] sonnysekhon:
Yeah, not sure about that as I have never been on AXURA.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] nickwarn:
Any news on your update without or with another window animation? I`m now on Modaco and using your theme. Its great and simple
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Jonathon Grigg:
Its coming don't worry! I have got a very early version done, however it crashes and FCs everywhere so I still have to sort it out. The main issue is for the stock version, as it has to be modded and themed from scratch, compared to CM7 where bits have already been done. The issue may be in stock where I am trying to edit some code to make the status bar the transparent of CM7, and also enable a H icon.

I have work this morning, but after I finish I should be free to work on it.

I have also been testing the stock version this time, on an early build of a stock based rom I'm working on (possibly to fill the stable and fast but themed area left by Axura when Master broke his phone) . This is how I have come across all these issues.

Sent from my Nexus S
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Jonathon Grigg:
unity 1.2.1 uploading now. All that has been changed is to remove the custom animations, so there is just an unthemed framework-res.apk in there now as well. I don't think this should cause any issues but if they do let me know. Uploading should be done in about ~15 mins or so.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] nickwarn:
Using 1.2.1 on CM Nightly #25. No problems
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] kvlt:
Working great, thanks. Love the simplicity of the theme and dare i say, the unity haha. I was undecided on the animations... but in the end i like it better without. If it were possible to make add ons of different animations that would be pretty awesome though. Keep it up man.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Jonathon Grigg:
Thanks! I've decided against the animations, they just seem to 'slow' everything with the waiting for them to complete. I may look into the separate animations but I don't really see a need for it, plus it would mean more versions to keep track of as each requires their own framework-res.apk

Glad to know it works fine Nick, anyone using it with stock?

Also when I was testing an early version of unityMOD yesterday (which is the ROM version of this) I got insane boot times of around ~10 seconds after the Google logo! So 15 seconds total. Still have a lot to do on it though, being based on stock and all, all the tweaks have to be added manually, although its definitely helping my understanding :)

Sent from my Nexus S
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] kenvan19:
Hey Jon it's running great on Axura here. I'd still like a themed Google search bar just to tie things together a little more :)

Sent from my MattedBlues CM7 Nexus S from the XDA Premium app.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Jonathon Grigg:
Great to hear! Yes I remember the search bar, although I need a bit more work on it. Whenever I tried to change something the background would come out all weird and incorrect, probably something to do with .9.png :(

I will work on that today if I get the chance, it may not be completed though.

Also a heads up for the next week. I am away on a school camp and they are not allowing us to take phones or they will be taken and not given back for a couple of weeks. For this reason, I will be out of touch for most of next week.

Sent from my Nexus S
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] kenvan19:
Ah ok and that sucks about school retreats ;p I had one more request, one for which I could do the work but only if others want it. One of the other tiny little things that bothers me is the white notification/clock text. When I use mattedblues, I always change the text color to match the theme color and I know its not stock but I could make the xml changes necessary to make the notification/clock text match the green of Gingerbread. Its something I'll probably end up doing for myself just because its a tiny pet peeve of my own but if others are interested I can give you the XML, Jon (also, I apologize if you prefer a different name...I'm just too lazy to type out the whole thing lol)
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Jonathon Grigg:
Sure, if you want to make the change and then take a screenshot for me, ill see what I think. Sounds like an interesting idea though! As for the name, don't worry :p I get called just about anything (: it doesn't bother me at all

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[Nexus S Themes and Apps] kenvan19:
Hmm...having trouble decompiling the systemui of the stock version. Going to try the CM7 one and if I'm still having trouble I'll try updating apktool

still having loads of trouble with systemui...did you do any theming in there or can I start with a fresh one?
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] kenvan19:
Well I went ahead and just used a fresh one. Had some strange results but this is just a mock up so meh...here is what I was talking about:

As you can see the menus were wacky as hell and I'm not sure why. I'll do some more figuring out if you would like me to make the xml changes for real.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Jonathon Grigg:
I always seem to have issues with systemui and framework-res. For some reason its only them, no other apps :( anyways, yes in systemui there is the custom notification shade. Interesting look though, I'll probably add it as a custom add on when its all ready, some may find it a bit too green that's all :p

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[Nexus S Themes and Apps] kenvan19:
Quite possible. I'm not offended if people don't like it :) its my personal preference to make everything match as best as possible but not everyone is me hehe

What do you use to decompile? apktool usually works well for me but occasionally with themed systemui's I have a lot of trouble decompiling them. Next time I get on my windows partition I'll drop in the custom notification shade etc and give you the apk to do with what you please. Is there an xml to edit to make it transparent?
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Jonathon Grigg:
I use apkmanager with apktool 1.3.1 mostly. I have used just plain apktool though for a few things. Could the themed stuff be because it requires the slightly different framework files?

Anyways, thanks for doing this, don't worry too much about things if you don't include them. I can do that :p

Sent from my Nexus S
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Jonathon Grigg:
Just a bit of interesting info, Frank707 has included both the themed camera.apk and launcher2.apk in his NSCollab rom (as of 1.0.12) :D that makes up about half of my total theme included in a rom :p

No updates for the next 5 days, I'm leaving tomorrow morning. If anyone has any suggestions while I'm away, just mention them when I get back and ill see what I can do :)

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[Nexus S Themes and Apps] kenvan19:
Have a good trip man!
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] roshga:
"ROM unityMOD 0.1.0 (GRI54)"?

can u share it with the rest of the class? :D
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Jonathon Grigg:
When I get back ill see what I can do. Uploading ~90mb on my home connection would take hours and I just don't have that time yet ;) besides, its still much a work in progress with not too many changes. But I will definitely upload it eventually, maybe just after I get back.

Just a few ideas though, I personally dislike the 3 or so different volume levels so what would people think of combining them into one as part of the rom?

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[Nexus S Themes and Apps] reddv1:
I noticed the Bottom handlebar of the notification tray in the Unity Theme (pictued above) was not rendering correctly, so I took the liberty of fixing it :), these 9 patch files are tricky. I've Attached status_bar_close_on.9.png in pre-compiled form and in compiled form, depending how you add png's to your apk's.

Hope these png's help.

Here's a screen shot of the bottom handlebar rendered correctly

status_bar_close_on-precompiled.9.png:

status_bar_close_on-compiled.9.png:
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] nickwarn:
Quick report, Unity theme works well with the new ZeroXS rom but CM Nightlies #29 just bootloops
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Jonathon Grigg:
Thanks very much for that! I could never figure out why it was doing it and it was annoying me a lot. I will include it in the next update this weekend.

Yes I just got back :D

Now as for the nightly bootloops, it's probably because something in either framework-res.apk or systemui.apk has been changed and is stuffing up. I will look into it asap, don't worry.

Sent from my Nexus S
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] kvlt:
Any updates on the boot loop situation haven't tried nightly 31 yet because I like this theme.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Jonathon Grigg:
Sorry for the lack of activity, I kinda exceeded our download quota for the month so I haven't been able to download newer nightlies since I got back. Plus I'm also heavily testing out MIUI for something different. Next weekend I will update to whatever the nightly is then.

However if you can't wait that long, you can obtain part of the theme by downloading the zip file, and using adb to push the camera, launcher and fonts if you wish. Just leave out systemui and framework-res and it should work fine.

Sent from my Google Nexus S
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Jonathon Grigg:
Having second thoughts about keeping the theme alive. I don't really feel like keeping track of updates to CM7 etc and incorporating them. I also have limited time especially with school at the moment, and I want to focus on actual coding of a rom, which is requiring more time than I originally thought.

Unless anyone wants me to continue with the occasional update when I get the chance, I don't really have a reason to keep this going. Sorry if this disappoints anyone, its just I'm feeling a bit down and trying to promise updates and not make them will just make it worse.

If I change my mind I will update this though, and anyone who wishes can still use any parts of the theme (ie camera and launcher).

Jonathon

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[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Jonathon Grigg:
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Theme discontinued until further notice (if at all).

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Decided theming wasnt for me, moving onto full on ROMs now, please have a look when I release it :) current name is infin1ty, updates are on my Twitter @jonathongrigg

Thanks for using my theme everyone!

Sent from my Google Nexus S
[HTC Aria General] ninjajtm:
Just curious but has anyone gotten n64oid to work without it crashing after selecting a rom? And if so was there a special way to make it work?
[HTC Aria General] unteagle:
wouldnt work for me either, shame because it looked really cool
[HTC Aria General] MyxoFish:
Yeah, it crashes on me as soon as I select a rom... Such a shame!
[HTC Aria General] ninjajtm:
Yea makes me wish a developer would look into the problem and fix it to use on the aria
[HTC Aria General] matt_b:
might be just because the aria has an arm6 processor that isn't powerful enough to run it? not sure.
[HTC Aria General] Moh_Jay:
Nah I've played ps1games on the aria and though laggy, will work.

I think the developer is still working on support.

Signatures are fancy.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guiltyspark117:
Is there a flash upgrade for my hero running aosp froyo mod?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guiltyspark117:
Or a way to tell if I have flash
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] borrowedchief:
As far as I know Flash is not available through these ROM's. Flash Lite is available on Sense ROM's I believe.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nsandhu23:
From what I know, the hero isn't capable yo have flash. Regardless of the ROMS.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guiltyspark117:
Dang
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bikcmp:
The hero doesn't support regular flash player, but sense roms have the frameworks to run HTC's flash player. What happened is flash for android was compiled for arm v7 cpu's. We have arm v6 :(. HTC compiled flash lite for v6, but it's attached to the htc frameworks, so it has to be in a sense rom. Sorry :(
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oohaylima:
Yeah, we'll never see one for this phone, besides the existing lite one. But hey, it's not really all that bad.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nsandhu23:
Yea by now, I think we are all used to be left behind. Am I right?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oohaylima:
Yep yep! Don't really need it. I care more about my functionality than pretty flashes.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guiltyspark117:
Rofl
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aqualls:
Compiled for ARMv7 chips yet my moment couldn't run flash either.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tjward5489:
I just flashed a ROM to my EVO for the first time, I noticed when I send a text with smiley's in them, the Android alien doesn't show up, but instead there are yellow smiley faces. Does anyone know if there is a flashable zip that will restore the little green guy to his rightful place or do I just have to live with the yellow ones? PS I flashed the Dark Cocoa ROM. Thanks for your help. And I love XDA! lol
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blu3poptart:
If you use handcent, you can download the default android smileys and use them there but I'm not sure about the stock messaging app
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tjward5489:
Ok thanks. I forgot about using Handcent. I used it before but wasn't a big fan of it because I can't seem to get it to look like the stock app.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blu3poptart:
Sure thing. Yea you can get it close to stock but not exact. Haha and it may take a few minutes to get it looking that way too
[G Tablet General] sword777:
where do i find out if my gtab has 3588 stock
[G Tablet General] snarful:
From homescreen, go to Settings, then click on "About Tablet"
[G Tablet General] Butch1326:
If you are using a custom rom such as TnT Lite, you will not find the ViewSonic Tap-n-Tap build version listed. You will see (in my case) TnT Lite v5.0.0. If you are thinking about upgrading to TnT Lite 5.0.0, you must follow the instructions Roebeet and others have put together on the first page of the TnT Lite thread found in the developers section of the forum. You cannot upgrade to TnT Lite 5.0.0 from a rom other than 3588, including any and all custom roms.
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rooster85:
I do not have a 4g plan but I noticed using infinites rom I can activate and use 4g, my question is will I be incurring additional charges because of using it or is it just unlocked like the portable hotspot?
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] riggsandroid:
You can't have this phone without the 4g plan. It's really that simple.
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akmzero:
Like riggs said, in order to use the evo, evo shift, or the epic; you must have the 4g plan. No exceptions, no work arounds. So no, you will not recieve any extra charges.
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rooster85:
Well I am on a company phone and our plan did not include 4g. I bought this phone and actuvated it on my line which did not have a 4g plan so either I will get charged or I have in fact found a workaround......
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rooster85:
Previously I had a palm pixi so I know no 4g was included
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] everydaysince87:
But the thing everyone is trying to tell you is once a 4G phone is activated the 10 dollars extra goes onto that line and as of a certain date ALL smartphones require the 10 dollar fee as a way for sprint to keep our data a true unlimited with no speed or usage caps at a certain point
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilgrass71:
I'm on $30 dollar sero with no 4G no premium data =)

Sorry didn't mean to rub it in