So I'd really like to have the middle 'soft-key' that pops up the b&n popup menu remapped to open the zeam app drawer instead. Is this something that is possible with an easy fix? I am fairly adept with adb, know the basics on how to use setprop and sqlite3 to change simple settings but don't know where to start on this. Any help?
I'd like to remap both that button and the "last book" button to "back" and "menu".
Dude can you please tell me what clock that is and if possible post a apk for it also the weather and if its any different the battery. Actually all the apk's for me to get the exact same home screen would be great.
Clock on top is called simi clock. I believe the weather is using beautiful widgets.
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Dude can you please tell me what clock that is and if possible post a apk for it also the weather and if its any different the battery. Actually all the apk's for me to get the exact same home screen would be great.
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Clock on top is called simi clock. I believe the weather is using beautiful widgets.
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It's
gTabSimiClock (Clock 3x1 with Date Text size 20)
PalmarySoft Weather (Weather Quarte)
BattStatt (Battery Small)
Also not sure if you want\need them but there is also
SetCPU Widget
adbWireless Widget
If you need those let me know and I'll up them too
FYI....the little status bar at the bottom should be controlled by framework-res.apk in /system/framework.
On other android devices, that is where these ui elements are located.
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h8rift said:
FYI....the little status bar at the bottom should be controlled by framework-res.apk in /system/framework.
On other android devices, that is where these ui elements are located.
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Yup, it's in there.
Unpack framework-res.apk and the images in question are:
framework-res/res/drawable-mdpi/stat_arrow_down.png
framework-res/res/drawable-mdpi/stat_arrow_up.png
The stock NC boot animation is also there at:
framework-res/assets/images/nookcol_512/
And I believe the 'n' image that appears on the slider to wake the nook up is:
framework-res/res/drawable-mdpi/ic_jog_dial_unlock.png
The next question is would it be possible to alter and repack this apk? I'm guessing not since we can't sign it with B&N's cert.
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i've been trying to use themes, and noticing that with launcherpro, after you press menu on the home screen, some of the icons don't change along with the new theme. as such, the search, notifications, and preferences icons don't change. does anyone have a way to fix this?
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i've been trying to use themes, and noticing that with launcherpro, after you press menu on the home screen, some of the icons don't change along with the new theme. as such, the search, notifications, and preferences icons don't change. does anyone have a way to fix this?
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You have to touch a blank spot on the screen. A menu will pop up, hit shortcut then applications. Pick your app then click on the icon and it well ask if you want the default icon or a custom one. You should be able to use any pictures you have in your gallery. You can also google png (fill in the blank) icon pictures and then download them to your sd card.
No he's talking about the icons for the menu options. When you press menu on the homescreen. I believe its because some of the icons call on the system default icons (the default in your case being whatever theme your using) and some come with the app. I think you would have to open the apk and swap out the .pngs with the icons you want to use.
I think...I've never done this, so hopefully someone will come in and fill in the holes that my ignorance couldn't.
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No he's talking about the icons for the menu options. When you press menu on the homescreen. I believe its because some of the icons call on the system default icons (the default in your case being whatever theme your using) and some come with the app. I think you would have to open the apk and swap out the .pngs with the icons you want to use.
I think...I've never done this, so hopefully someone will come in and fill in the holes that my ignorance couldn't.
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yea thats what i meant. here's what it looks like currently. its a honeycomb theme with bionix 1.3.1 and using launcherpro. you can see that some of the icons are the new blue ones, but the rest didnt change.
i tried using ninjamorph to change the the icons, the blue ones are in system/framework, but i dont know where the notification, search, and preferences ones are located. anyone have any clue?
Those specific ones should be located with in the launcher pro apk, if im thinking about thi s correctly. you will need to resign the apk after making my modifications for it to work. Hope this helps
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haha cool. if u find out how or where the icons are located, could u post a short tutorial?
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I have 5 home screens set up on my Dell Streak, each containing a group of widgets/shortcuts that relate to a distinct home screen.
Is there an app like a "Text label" app that lets me longpress and add a text/lable widget at the top of each screen and can enter the text that i want to use as a lable for each screen?
Example,
Home Screen 1 text display "Phone and Messaging"
HS2 text display = "Office and Calendar"
HS3 text display = "Android Market and Online Shortcuts"
HS4 text display = "Games"
HS5 text display = "System and Settings"
It sounds like a simple app where you define the text to be displayed, then drag it in place on which ever home screen that the longpress step has been executed.
Is there an app for this in the market?
I think this will do what you want...
Search for minimal text or minimalist. You can add text clocks as well as text strings
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Sorry meant to say in the market....search the market
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Search for minimal text or minimalist. You can add text clocks as well as text strings
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Thanks Fazzie I will check it out. Greatly appreciated
The Regina launcher from the market includes this feature and is available free on the market. 2.0 and higher I believe.
Search the market for Banner, it's a very simple to use widget with color and font options, also size of the font.
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you could also, use a different desktop background for each homescreen and put each background into photoshop or something and write the text actually on each background before you apply it to the phone. Means you could have endless fonts and blending options doing it that way. Obviously slightly more time consumming though.
All are great options.
you can also use desktop visualizer from the market to place custom widget style icons onto the desktop.
Make a few text image files in GIMP or photoshop or whatever, place a widget onto the desktop and assign to it any image of your choosing.
Text Widget, made by an xda member should do the thing.
I "named" my homescreens with this widgets in a very similar order as your example
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Text Widget, made by an xda member should do the thing.
I "named" my homescreens with this widgets in a very similar order as your example
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Swank! I will search for it on the forum. The member named it "Text Widget"? That should be easy to find. Thanks!
After watching the video demoing the Windows 8 tablet I decided to try and recreate as much of the UI as possible.
If this sounds like something you want, you'll need the following apps:
-ADW EX Launcher
-Desktop Visualizer
-Multipicture Live Wallpaper
Optional:
-Palmary Weather Pro
Setup:
-Place the adw_ex_settings.xml file into your /sdcard directory and restore settings in ADW. Or set columns to 9 and rows to 5, make sure you have widgets set to stretch in advanced and turn off wallpaper scrolling.
-Set the wallpaper in Multipicture Live Wallpaper. Or you can try Wallpaper Wizardii if you want, but even though we're only going to be using the one wallpaper I found Multipicture was easier to use.
-Place a shortcut to open/close the app drawer under "Start", use the transparent.png for an icon and delete the text. Then arrange the 2x1 and 1x1 desktop visualizer widgets as you see fit.
*Optional* Modding Palmary Weather Pro:
-Download Apk Manager from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695701
-Pull the Palmary apk and place it into the modding folder, then run the Apk Manager script and select 1 to unzip the apk.
-Unzip the weather backgrounds and icons (optional) I provided into their respective directories, overwriting the existing files.
-Press 3 to zip it back up and then press 4 to re-sign the apk.
-Install the app and change the background color by choosing different transparencies in Palmary settings.
Please note that if you edit the background png's I provided they will not work afterwards. If you want to add more colors or change the ones I included, you'll have to refer to this guide here: http://modmymobile.com/forums/404-mo...ng-images.html
I hope you like the look, and if you make some new icons or wallpapers please upload them to the thread. If enough new ones get made I'll add them to this post.
Files:
Wtab8_icons - icons, wallpaper, adw settings
Wtab8_psd_fonts - 2x1, 1x1 psd files, Segoe fonts
Wtab8_weather_mod - backgrounds and icons for use with Palmary Weather.
The Palmary icons are still kind of a work in progress, if you live in an area that gets severe weather things can look a bit busy.
hoodoomagic said:
After watching the video demoing the Windows 8 tablet I decided to try and recreate as much of the UI as possible.
If this sounds like something you want, you'll need the following apps:
-ADW EX Launcher
-Desktop Visualizer
-Multipicture Live Wallpaper
Optional:
-Palmary Weather Pro
Place the adw_ex_settings.xml file into your /sdcard directory and restore settings in ADW. Or set columns to 9 and rows to 5, make sure you have widgets set to stretch in advanced and turn off wallpaper scrolling.
Set the wallpaper in Multipicture Live Wallpaper. Or you can try Wallpaper Wizardii if you want, but even though we're only going to be using the one wallpaper I found Multipicture was easier to use.
Place a shortcut to open/close the app drawer under "Start", use the transparent.png for an icon and delete the text. Then arrange the 2x1 and 1x1 desktop visualizer widgets as you see fit.
You can stop here if you want, but if you want to make the Palmary Weather widget look more like a Windows 8 live tile you'll need to take some additional steps...
First you'll need to download Apk Manager from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695701
Once you've pulled the Palmary apk, place it into the modding folder and press 1 to unzip the contents into the projects folder, then simply extract the weather backgrounds and icons (optional) into their respective directories. Then press 3 to zip it back up and then press 4 to sign it. Once that's done you can install the app again. Then you can change the background color via the transparency option.
If you want to add more colors or change the ones I included, you'll have to refer to this guide here: http://modmymobile.com/forums/404-mo...ng-images.html
If you change the background png's I included they will not work afterwards.
I hope you like the look, and if you make some new icons or wallpapers please upload them to the thread. If enough new ones get made I'll add them to this post.
Files:
Wtab8_icons.rar - icons, wallpaper, adw settings
Wtab8_psd_fonts - 2x1, 1x1 psd files, Segoe fonts
Wtab8_weather_mod - backgrounds and icons for use with Palmary Weather.
The Palmary icons are still kind of a work in progress, if you live in an area that gets severe weather things can look a bit busy. I'll keep tinkering with it, but I make no promises.
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Not my cup of tea personally but very creative and informative. Nice job!
would u be interested in me porting some of this over?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1120525
How did you get rid of the ads icon in the top right corner?
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b00sted said:
would u be interested in me porting some of this over?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1120525
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If you did, I would totally use it
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How did you get rid of the ads icon in the top right corner?
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Use the same method used to modify the palmary weather widget on ADW. Once the apk is unpacked, find the icons and make them transparent.
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How did you get rid of the ads icon in the top right corner?
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I just modded my apk and got rid of the icon. PM if you want it
Amazing work. Just set up my gtab 10.1 home screen to look like this. Could not palmary weather to work like yours so i settled for a 1x1 widget. Would love to know where I can download more icons or how to make them. Thanks for posting the guide!
do you have to be rooted for this? i cant find the "sdcard" directory...thanks
jaoropez said:
do you have to be rooted for this? i cant find the "sdcard" directory...thanks
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So I went ahead and got Go Launcher Ex. Is there anyway at all to remove the damn dock? Thanks!
okmijnlp said:
So I went ahead and got Go Launcher Ex. Is there anyway at all to remove the damn dock? Thanks!
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do you mean the dock on the home screen?
I don't know how to actually remove it, but you could set the background to transparent and remove all icons.
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I don't know how to actually remove it, but you could set the background to transparent and remove all icons.
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goto prefrences, then select theme settings. select dock background , and select the option hide background.
OptimalK
you'll have that + + + + + label for adding another icons...
you COULD in theory create a blank PNG or jpeg or whatever.. save it in your gallery (or wherever.. )
Long press on one of the Plus signs.
Select "Replace"
Select "Custom Icon"
then select your blank png (blank.png attached to post
et voila
I have added a blank.zip to the post
just unzip the blank.zip and there will be a blank.png inside....copy to your phone..... find it in the gallery.. and i can confirm it works
example screeenshot of it in action
(i have left dock background in place just to prove it is working,, but easy to disable)
show/hide dockbar
if you dont need the whole dockbar on your homescreens you can also configure to show or hide it with a gesture.
go to "settings" -> "function-settings" -> "buttons and gestures" -> "action for wiping down" -> "show/hide dockbar"
(i hope this are the names of the menus in english because i have the german version)
now when you wipe your finger down on any homescreen the dockbar shows or hides itself.
thats the settings i prefer but do as you like!
regards
Hello, is there any way to remove dock and use its space for widgets?
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Hello, is there any way to remove dock and use its space for widgets?
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No you can't.
1. Wrong section
2. Dumb question
3. Lazy user
when you tap the + icon, some options pop up where you can select "blank" and + icon will disappear
clonednull said:
if you dont need the whole dockbar on your homescreens you can also configure to show or hide it with a gesture.
go to "settings" -> "function-settings" -> "buttons and gestures" -> "action for wiping down" -> "show/hide dockbar"
(i hope this are the names of the menus in english because i have the german version)
now when you wipe your finger down on any homescreen the dockbar shows or hides itself.
thats the settings i prefer but do as you like!
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This is the best way. However the homescreen real estate is not expanded to reach the bottom of the screen, unlike most other launchers. For this reason I switching back to ADW, although Go's transition fx are amazing
Bit of a bump here, can i not replace the dock with say Arrow Dock? It's completely different so is it possible?
This is arrowdock:
Taken form the post your home screen thread.
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Pfeffernuss said:
No you can't.
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Actually you can.
Set glide action to hide dock bar, return to home screen and 'glide to hide',reset glide action to whatever. Now when home, no dock bar. Voila!
uppon2 said:
1. Wrong section
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3. Lazy user
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wrong section yes but not a stupid question nor a lazy user. its an option in adw that i wish go launcher had. i would switch to adw for this option alone but i'm having other more serious issue with adw. the point of this is to use the space so my widget extends to the bottom of the screen. it just looks a lot cleaner instead of empty space at the bottom where the dock would be.
supernugget said:
Actually you can.
Set glide action to hide dock bar, return to home screen and 'glide to hide',reset glide action to whatever. Now when home, no dock bar. Voila!
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I think the earlier question was removing the dock bar and using the real estate to place widgets, which you really can't. Hiding the dock bar? Yes of course. Using the space for widgets? No can do.
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I think the earlier question was removing the dock bar and using the real estate to place widgets, which you really can't. Hiding the dock bar? Yes of course. Using the space for widgets? No can do.
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You can use the space for widgets, the trick is that you have to go to a larger grid size, place the widget at the bottom, and then change the grid size to be one notch smaller.
I did this so that my twitter widget is stretched to the very end of the screen, and the same thing for the jorte calendar on another screen.
It's easy
Using the additional screen area at the bottom can be done, but only for resizable items (widgets). Here's how. Increase your vertical grid capacity by one. I run a 5x4, so I would switch to a 6x4. Use a gesture feature to hide the dock bar. Any widget that was on the bottom of your previous grid will now be one row up from the bottom. RESIZE the widget to occupy the bottom row (do not move it). For a 1x1widget, you would be turning it into a 2x1 widget. Now, go back into your preferences ---> screen settings. Revert back to your original grid layout and return to your home screen. The bottom widgets should occupy the full lower area.
There are three problems with doing this.
1) Any time you show the dock bar, the widgets will not adjust, meaning that the dock will cover part of the widget(s).
2) If you long press any of the lower widgets, it will detect the missing grid row and relocate the widget. In the event this happens, you must repeat the process all over again. This means no moving or resizing widgets once they're in place.
3) The spacing between the lower widgets and anything directly above them is increased due to the widget occupying a larger vertical area. This creates a less uniform look. Note that this only applies to widgets that do not stretch when resized (fixed widget size).
How this helps.
This thread is awesome, now I can finally make some MIUI like interface.
I'm looking for help to either blackout, make transparent or remove the notification panel clock (drop down clock) and the lockscreen clock. I have already tired xblast tools and wanam xposed. Niether one gave me the desired results. I read that these can be modified in the systemui.apk, however I'm on a mac so the necessary tools aren't really available, that I am aware of. Anyways any input regarding a workaround or a solution would be much appreciated. Thanks
Update: I was able to take care of the notification panel clock via Wanam. Still looking for a solution for the lockscreen though.
For the lock screen clock.
Under locks sreen settings turn on multiple widgets.
Then you can press and hold on the clock to remove it.
And also can add whatever widget you want in its place.
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Thanks, great workaround.
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For the lock screen clock.
Under locks sreen settings turn on multiple widgets.
Then you can press and hold on the clock to remove it.
And also can add whatever widget you want in its place.
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