[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] JBabey:
Cyanogen 7.1.0 Final ColorMOD + Nightlies

I have spent several hours/days/weeks compiling a simple yet powerfully awesome ColorMOD for Cyanogen7. I would not call this a "Theme" by any stretch of the imagination as all I wanted was some gosh-darned COLOR in my ROM aside from the puke-green of Gingerbread.

I pulled icons from about 7 different theme-packs, I edited a crapton of them in photoshop, and some of them I made myself. I did *NOT* add color icons to the google apps for several reasons, the largest of which is that modifying them can cause them to not update.

If you see any glitches, or an icon I missed please holler at me here and I will fix it immediately. I try to stay on top of the nightly builds as best I can but whatever.

I started this MOD as a request from a friend of mine, and figured it was really nice and maybe some of you out there would like to run it.

I am seriously struggling with the new Theme engine, so this is a .zip flashable that overwrites your default system theme. Other theme packs will of course still work perfectly.

Credits that I can remember...

UrBaN Theme By: R3Ds ~> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=948109&highlight=urban

MiXeR Theme By: MrDSL ~> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=920165

CM 7 and 6 Colorized Mod By: tnpapadakos ~> http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/11545-cm-7-and-6-colorized-mod/

Liquid Battery (since removed) By: haledroid ~> http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-themes/56651-liquid-battery-icon-android.html

BootAnimation I use By: Crackanug ~> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=989683

1% Battery Percentages and "Fly" Window Style By: Ultimate Online Kitchen ~> http://uot.dakra.lt/kitchen/

Androidian Theme By: Fyb3roptik ~> http://www.appbrain.com/app/mytouch-4g-theme-androidian/com.fyb3roptik.theme.Androidian

Anyways heres the snaps, download will be attached at the bottom.

I've been making changes slowly and subtly but I figured it was high and time to make a change-log seeing as I plan to keep this updated due to its popularity.

Changelog:

Added color birthday icon & changed the profile icon when holding down power button (the other one looked out of place)

Added colored icon for the screenshot option when holding down the power button

Changed the vertical color bar from yucky orange to awesome BLUE~!

Updated the WiFi Icon, embossed & changed the single dot to RED when theres no signal

Updated the 4G Icon in the notification bar with ones made by member "Vegasden"

Updated the system Font from ubuntu10.10 to ubuntu, makes scrolling text less laggy and looks the same

Updated window animations to the "Fly-IN" method. Very smooth, very cool.

To Do:

Make the notifications in the drop-down bar transparent (looks like butthole, gonna try and just inverse the colors)

Convert what I can to a theme manager .apk file (WIP, maybe never, Im having issues/lack of help)

And Finally, the Download

BETA Theme Manager APK done by MrDSL (

Please Thank Him!

) ~> http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=364909

ColorMOD beta APK (For Use With Theme Manager by MrDSL

http://www.multiupload.com/0B2IL26VGQ

Cyanogen 7.1.0 FINAL

http://www.multiupload.com/2CA3TY8LCC

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Older

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Cyanogen 7.0.2.1 FINAL (works on 703...)

http://www.multiupload.com/46DEA5M04R

Cyanogen 7.1.0 RC1

http://www.multiupload.com/MZDT5CLI7C

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THEMES FOR COLORMOD!

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-MUST Flash the above file 1st!

-After flashing the above ColorMOD, Flash any of the below Theme Files

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Cyanogen 7.1.0 Nightly 200 & Higher THEME (DrWho)

http://www.multiupload.com/1TQ1FH4XCA

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Cyanogen 7.1.0 Nightly 200 & Higher THEME (Mario)

http://www.multiupload.com/STWNP6E38U

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Cyanogen 7.0.2.1 FINAL THEME (Dolpin)

http://www.multiupload.com/0OKLH1R2L9

Cyanogen 7.1.0 Nightly 200 & Higher THEME (Dolpin)

http://www.multiupload.com/C659VKALM0

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Cyanogen 7.0.2.1 FINAL THEME (Ezio)

http://www.multiupload.com/UBBOILT4BI

Cyanogen 7.1.0 Nightly 200 & Higher THEME (Ezio)

http://www.multiupload.com/8WGSLEEIWU

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Cyanogen 7.0.2.1 FINAL THEME (Portal)

http://www.multiupload.com/Z91EISV9ZN

Cyanogen 7.1.0 Nightly 200 & Higher THEME (Portal)

http://www.multiupload.com/3SL38AM9CJ

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Cyanogen 7.0.2.1 FINAL THEME (Sword)

http://www.multiupload.com/MG0TL08WE1

Cyanogen 7.1.0 Nightly 200 & Higher THEME (Sword)

http://www.multiupload.com/7JB3M4W5HY

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Cyanogen 7.0.2.1 FINAL THEME (Ichigo)

http://www.multiupload.com/QI3V72QO00

Cyanogen 7.1.0 Nightly 200 & Higher THEME (Ichigo)

http://www.multiupload.com/P12XXAEVT5

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Cyanogen 7.0.2.1 FINAL THEME (Voodoo)

http://www.multiupload.com/44AJSASMBZ

Cyanogen 7.1.0 Nightly 200 & Higher THEME (Voodoo)

http://www.multiupload.com/AKUS31YCD9

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TUTORIAL

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If you want to modify this theme, use its pictures, make your own themes, distribute whatever, here is my "method" for creating this color modification. Download the files below and lets play "follow-along"

Android "Auto-Sign" Tool

http://www.soulpirates.info/downloads/android_autosign.zip

ColorMOD Template Package

http://www.soulpirates.info/downloads/Cyanogen7_ColorMOD_Template.rar

Open this webpage in a browser

http://uot.dakra.lt/kitchen/

Download the version of Cyanogen you wish to modify

http://mirror.teamdouche.net/?device=supersonic

Download the last previous version of the ColorMOD

Links above

Know how to use Adobe Photoshop

Have a good zip program for opening .apk files (I use 7zip)

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Step 1:

Download & Extract the latest Cyanogen ROM to a folder on your computer

Download & Extract the latest ColorMOD to a folder on your computer

Download & Extract the Cyanogen7_ColorMOD_Template to a folder on your computer

Step 2:

Rename the ColorMOD folder to reflect the new version number i.e. rename "Cyanogen7-rc4_ColorMOD(stock)" ~> "Cyanogen7-n36_ColorMOD(stock)"

Open folder from the latest ROM & the latest ColorMOD side-by-side

Navigate down to the \system\app folder on both

Notice that the ROM has several dozen apk files, and the ColorMOD has only 5

In the ROM folder, grab the 5 .apk files that you see in the ColorMOD folder

Contacts.apk

Mms.apk

Phone.apk

Settings.apk

SystemUI.apk

Move them into the ColorMOD folder overwriting the 5 that are in there, this way you have the latest versions of them directly from the ROM

Step 3:

Navigate both folders to \system\framework

Open the website

http://uot.dakra.lt/kitchen/

Navigate to the "File Upload" tab

Under "framework-res.apk"

Choose "Select File"

Upload the "framework-res.apk" from the ROM folder

You will now see a progress bar that it is uploading

When it says "Complete"

Click on the tab that says "Windows Animation"

For ColorMOD I use "Flying"

Check the box that says "Use this mod" and click the radio button that says "Flying"

Click on the tab that says "Battery"

Check "Use this mod"

Click on the option that says "SCB with %"

This allows you to use 1% battery increments

Pick ANY option, it doesnt matter, we will be overwriting the battery image files anyways

Click on "Summary" Tab

You will now see three items in green

-Battery

-Windows Animation

-File upload

Click on "Submit work to kitchen" and wait approx 10 minutes.

It will now prepare the framework-res.apk for you that you will be using for the finishing touches on the ColorMOD. You use this kitchen because it prepares all of the REALLY hard stuff for you, such as editing XML files to allow 1% battery and flying in window animations. You can actually just save the xml files it modifies and use them going forward so your not impacting the website, but for this tutorial were going through all the steps from scratch.

Step 4:

Download the file you just "cooked" and save it into your working folder

Open the zip file, it will start with UOT, and extract the framework-res.apk file from it

Now take the "framework-res.apk" file, and OVERWRITE the one in your ColorMOD folder in \system\framework

Step 5:

You are now ready to overwrite the stock image files (nasty green piles of puke) with your beautiful and glorious colorized ones.

Most of this has been prepped for you so it is now SUPER easy. Getting the apk files over and the framework prepared are the hard parts. Now its really just a matter of drag/drop.

Open the ColorMOD template folder side-by-side to the working ColorMOD folder

You will notice that in the \system\app folder you have .apk files that match the FOLDER names in the template folder

Now, simply open the .apk file (I use 7zip), and its corresponding folder in the template

Drag and drop, overwriting all the files when it prompts you

Once you have done that for all of the .apk files in \system\app

Open the \system\framework folder and repeat the same process

Step 6:

You have now replaced every puke-green picture and black & white nonsense with glorious color

Now you need to zip it, sign it, and flash it. Ill show you how to customize it a little bit first

-Close all your folders now except the ColorMOD folder, you are done with the ROM and Template now.

Go to the root so all you see is "META-INF" & "system"

Dig all the way down to \Cyanogen7-n36_ColorMOD(stock)\META-INF\com\google\android

Open the "updater-script" file (I use notepad2)

This should look familiar. Its where you can customize the messages that are played out while flashing the zip file

I shouldnt have to tell you, but dont F*CK with the stuff that doesnt say "ui_print" You have probrably flashed this enough times to know what shows up on the screen and what doesnt. The stuff that doesnt show up, is the stuff that is actually telling the system how to flash the zip file. Anyways, change it up a little, remove my name, put your own ascii art in there, do whatever you want - save/close

You may have also noticed some extra folders in there that we didnt discuss here, "fonts" & "media" ~> Well open them up, the fonts is what replaces your system font with ubuntu10 font, and media is where the bootanimation is located, as well as a few ringtones/notifications I put onto your phone when you flash. You can replace the files in here with whatever you want, add your own bootanimation, dump some ringtones, change the system font etc. When your all done having fun...

-Head back to the root folder so all you see is "META-INF" & "system"

select both folders and zip them up like so

Step 7:

IMPORTANT

-Do NOT flash this if you have modified ANYTHING in the TEMPLATE!!! (This includes ringtones/notifications/etc)

IMPORTANT

You can technically now flash this file, it is signed and ready to go, however, if you modified ANYTHING from the template at all you need to re-sign the file. Signing the file generates a "manifest" of every file that is included in the archive, if you add or remove a file, you need to resign the archive or it will completely bork on install.

To sign files easily, you MUST have the android-sdk installed, I would assume that most of you have this but if not download and install it.

Extract the auto-sign file you downloaded from the top and put the files in the \android\tools folder (android being the folder of your sdk installation)

You will see a beautiful and wonderful .bat file called autosign.bat -YAY!

Move your .zip file to a location that has ZERO spaces in the path. If you have a space the bat file will hang and freeze

To make things easy just put it on the root of your c: drive or something and make sure the zip file name has ZERO spaces

Double check that the patch and file name has ZERO spaces, if your not sure, put it on the root of the c drive and name the file like "a.zip"

Open the autosign.bat file

Choose option (4) Sign files manually

now type the path of your colormod, for example c:\a.zip

Hit enter

If it reads

File signed successfully if no Errors above.

Your good

Step 8:

Copy the zip file to your phone and flash it

Your a god-damned champ! Pat yourself on the back.