Ive been searching for the better part of this morning on how to change the status bar icons. My battery is red right now but i want to change the 3g/4g icon, signal bars and whatever else i can to match. Ive been able to find the files i need to edit but thats where im stuck. I downloaded gimp and cant really figure out how to change the colors. Is there another program i can use to edit them? Or can someone just help me any help would be greatly appreciated.
Try using the UOT Kitchen.
http://uot.dakra.lt/
Thanks I've tried that but can't get the 3g icon and wifi to change. Are you able to?
Haven't done it with the Kitchen, but I did use this guide to change my status bar icons.
Thanks a lot for that I just read over it and it doesnt seem hard at all. The problem im having now is finding an icon pack with all the signal bars and wifi bars, etc
jumpoff609 said:
Thanks a lot for that I just read over it and it doesnt seem hard at all. The problem im having now is finding an icon pack with all the signal bars and wifi bars, etc
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If you like something from the UOT kitchen, just screenshot the demo icons, resize and format them accordingly.
I didn't even think of that. Thanks a lot you just made my day
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con247 said:
If you like something from the UOT kitchen, just screenshot the demo icons, resize and format them accordingly.
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Would you happen to have any programs you recommend for resize and format
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if you still need a hand, shoot me a pm and ill give you directions on how to do it with gimp, its actually rather easy, although there are quite a few icons to change
Thanks that would be great I sent you a pm but it's not showing in my sent box. If you can pm me maybe that will work. Thanks for being willing to help
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Made this for myself and thought I would share. Support will be minimal due to time limitations. Unless there is a major problem.
This has been used with CM6.1 on both a Vibrant and Nexus One.
Not responsible if you don't know what you are doing.
Included apk's are:
- Browser.apk
- Contacts.apk
- Phone.apk
- Settings.apk
- mms.apk
- framework-res.apk
All of these are fully themed using the gingerbread files graphics files.
XML edits were also done to make the menus black with white text.
I didn't include the gmail app since it is from the market now. If you want to theme the notification icon, use a morph that is posted in the theme section. Or use ninja morph.
Enjoy!
p.s. must change clock date and notification text colors to match in CyanogenMOD settings (UI tweaks)
Wow booted with no problem. Awesome work... can u boot this on a nexus too or did u modify it from the nexus, for the cm6 for vibrant... its really themed well.
It will work on the nexus as well. Confirmed by my co-worker.
Nice! Maybe I can use other cyanogen mod themes from the nexus forums
Do I load this using morph or CW?
Flash in clockwork recovery
Looks good. Just want to know,
in case I want to go back to the previous theme, what should I do?
Thanks for the work and help.
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Nice! Maybe I can use other cyanogen mod themes from the nexus forums
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Can anyone confirm if this works?
what part of your theme mods the menus black? wanna use it for my personal gingerbread theme for the vibrant.
edit: saw your post in the other thread explaining it to be an xml edit in framework.res-apk
The K-Zoo Kid said:
Can anyone confirm if this works?
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Yeah I thought I did when I posted
diazf09 said:
Yeah I thought I did when I posted
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How? You said "Maybe I can use other cyanogen mod themes from the nexus forums" and i was wondering if anyone could confirm if that works. Pretty self explanatory.
So try it.. worst come to worst u odin
Will this work on Axura 2.1?
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everything is perfect only 1 thing, signal bars stay gray??
Signal bars should be green if you are in network. some of the roaming bars are gray.
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Signal bars should be green if you are in network. some of the roaming bars are gray.
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Actually in the gingerbread sdk they are all grey. But the green does look better.
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Actually in the gingerbread sdk they are all grey. But the green does look better.
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I just ripped open the framework-res.apk included in this theme and the green bar .png's are indeed there, so not sure what's causing them not to show up.
What weather widget is that? Can I find that somewhere around here?
ok so, there must be some major issues with the network in my area today. I normally get bars and today I haven't gotten any but my data is there, however, very spotty as well. Guess is they're fixing the network or something. The green bars should show up as they have on other 2.3 themes, as the .png's appear to be there in this theme as well. Thanks OP.
Wow thanks so much.
This is really amazing. I appreciate your hard work and for you reading it to the community
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I did some googling but the few solutions I found did not work, does anyone know a good mod or app to make the notification bar translucent on GB roms? Specifically I am on Simply Honey 5.0. Metamorph or otherwise?
Thanks in advance!
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Mirmensky said:
I did some googling but the few solutions I found did not work, does anyone know a good mod or app to make the notification bar translucent on GB roms? Specifically I am on Simply Honey 5.0. Metamorph or otherwise?
Thanks in advance!
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try uot kitchen might be able to do it there
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try uot kitchen might be able to do it there
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Thanks for the advice, I went there and was eventually able to make a pretty decent themed pulldown menu, but the only thing that didn't change was the top bar even though it was right in the example it showed before I finished it. I tried a few more but everytime the bar was the only thing that wouldn't change.
Oh well, I just can't seem to work this thing out. Thanks anyways!
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decompile the apk, I think its systemui.apk and then modify the status bar and then recompile it
I did some Googling and searched the thread but i didn't find anything.
Is there a mod for 1% battery increments for the stock rooted 2.3.4 x2?
I've found them for other phones and built into rom's but what about stock rooted?
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1) wrong section
2) check out UOT Kitchen. You can customize your own battery symbol how ever you want. And its flushable, just have to upload systemui and framework-res.
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i have rom toolbox so yes i already can change the battery icon....thats not what i am looking for...i want it to read in 1% increments...stock doesn't....i cant update the icon that is capable of doing that but it'll still just update in the stock increments
This post prolly get moved to Q&A...but anyways the 1%mod is a series of edits somewhere in the framework I believe.
I thought I had seen a flashable version a long while ago but can't find it. It gonna take some digging around to find....good luck
Use UOT Kitchen to make a mod, its easy and customizable.
I could make you one if you want.
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IDMA.DROID.X2 said:
Use UOT Kitchen to make a mod, its easy and customizable.
I could make you one if you want.
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That would be much appreciated! I don't need the logo i can change that with rom toolbox. i just need the phone to be able to process the 1% increments...Thanks a lot!!
The program I use to get 1% is Battery Monitor Widget Pro.
https://market.android.com/details?id=ccc71.bmw.pro&feature=more_from_developer
(See Attached pic ) Sorry about poor pic quality.
There's a setting in program to set the 1%.
Work's great I use this widgit in pic.
Hope this Helps
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i have rom toolbox so yes i already can change the battery icon....thats not what i am looking for...i want it to read in 1% increments...stock doesn't....i cant update the icon that is capable of doing that but it'll still just update in the stock increments
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ImgBurn said:
The program I use to get 1% is Battery Monitor Widget Pro.
https://market.android.com/details?id=ccc71.bmw.pro&feature=more_from_developer
(See Attached pic ) Sorry about poor pic quality.
There's a setting in program to set the 1%.
Work's great I use this widgit in pic.
Hope this Helps
Use the thanks button when someone helps you. (ITS FREE) and Its just nice to see
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That's a good idea the only thing is u need to be on home screen to see the 1% increments.
Other than that...good idea
Ya thanks for the idea I just want it built into the status bar like all the rom's. I can't believe there isn't something available already to flash to get this...oh well I'm a dev will eventually do it
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Actually you can show on notification bar.
(See Attached) There's a free add on to do this.
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True but I'd rather have that not running in the background and don't need additional icon in the bar.....thanks though....I want the current battery icon to just read 1% increments and then I can update the icon with rom toolbox.
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I PM'd you a solution.
ok, I'm still an android noob, but I believe the functionality is already there, its not like my prior TP2 that required special drivers.
Hence I think you really could just use UOT to change the existing icon on the bar to the needle gauge type with numbers?
somebody correct me if I'm wrong?
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ok, I'm still an android noob, but I believe the functionality is already there, its not like my prior TP2 that required special drivers.
Hence I think you really could just use UOT to change the existing icon on the bar to the needle gauge type with numbers?
somebody correct me if I'm wrong?
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You can use UOT Kitchen to mod everything but status bar and boot animation.
You just have ROM use the right systemui and framework-res apks, otherwise you'll get fcs operantly.
(Sorry about that dude!)
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Just got the infinity rom and think it wicked. The only thing is its unclear how much signal you have on the notification bar and i would like to have different notification images (the wifi signal, network signal and battery etc.)
Is there anything i can do?
go to uot kitchen
and change it
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looking into it now. Thanks again
where do i find cyanbread.apk on my phone to upload to kitchen
dont worry got it
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dont worry got it
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you could also upload
frameworkrez apk
and systemui.apk
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was just about to ask. right will have a go it looks awsome. thanks dude
its not working i click submit work but nothing happens
you will need to wait
there thousands of people who are doing same thing
it needs to decompile
edit xmla
etc and compile
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will do. It's going to looks awsome
How would I go about changing the color of the "15 toggle" mod myself?
What color did you want? There's blue, purple, and green.
I know what colors there are lol. Off the top of my head I can think of 140+ other colors I'd might like to have...
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BlackZenith said:
I know what colors there are lol. Off the top of my head I can think of 140+ other colors I'd might like to have...
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Eh...ok...sorry. Only trying to solve a need.
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How would I go about changing the color of the "15 toggle" mod myself?
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Open up the lidroid apk with 7zip or similar program pull out the drawable-hdpi folder.Leave the Lidroid.apk open on your desktop. Color the images to your liking. Then drag the folder back to the open lidroid.apk on your desktop.Close apk.Push to phone. PROFIT!
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You could pull it apart, decompile the apks, change the color of the images, and recompile, and you'll have to for each new color you want. It's a decent bit of work but probably the only way you're going to get it unless you talk to the person who makes it and convince them to make another color for you.
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welchertc said:
You could pull it apart, decompile the apks, change the color of the images, and recompile, and you'll have to for each new color you want. It's a decent bit of work but probably the only way you're going to get it unless you talk to the person who makes it and convince them to make another color for you.
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Understood. I was hoping someone could also point out the exact file/apk that I would need to mod and hopefully it would be as easy as doing a replace all for the color code I want to replace... which I see bigfau provided (lidroid apk)
What about the icons in the notification area? Battery, signal strength, and etc?
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Your right, no worries.
No, I didn't by chance happen to see bigfau's post before I got mine in, as he beat me to the punch and slipped in while I was typing mine.
Besides, even though he replied just before me, is there a problem with me providing similar information? If anything, two people telling the OP essentially the same thing will further reassure the OP and give him more confidence to try his own hand at theming.
And what does pointing me to his ROM thread have to do with my post? I'm well aware of the development going on for our phones.
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What about the icons in the notification area? Battery, signal strength, and etc?
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SystemUI.apk and Framework-res.apk.
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bigfau said:
SystemUI.apk and Framework-res.apk.
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So I read here that if you are using a mod to change stuff, you can't further update those same mods from the ROM (which might help explain why I have been unsuccessful). So I went into the "15 Toggle.zip" I am using and tried to swap out some PNGs from the "drawable-hdpi" and got a "Not Implemented" error from 7zip... what's up with that?
Not sure if it matters but the PNG's I am trying to swap are not those 9.PNGs... I can't even open those to see what they look like. Something about unsupported compression method...
I think its because you need to decompile the apks, swap out your images, then recompile. It's what you have to do for standard theming, so it should be the same for what you want to do.
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I think its because you need to decompile the apks, swap out your images, then recompile. It's what you have to do for standard theming, so it should be the same for what you want to do.
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hmmm, read somewhere else you only needed to decompile if you were doing stuff to data, like changing values or code in XML files. There are folders within the apk that I can copy to without problem (although expected changes have yet to take effect). Guess it wouldn't hurt to de/recompile and see what happens.
Something else I noticed is that for the "15 Toggle.zips" that don't change the status bar icons, I can swap the status bar images np. But when I run the .zip in CWM, none of my changes take effect. But if I try to change the status bar icons of a "15 Toggles.zip" that I know changes the status bar icons (like bigfau's green 15 toggle mod), I get the "Not Implemented' error.
While I know swapping using 7zip works for some stuff, you're going to run into trouble with .9's and like you've said, xmls, but if you take the little bit of extra time to just decompile and recompile all of the changes will work. In my opinion, its worth the two extra minutes just to not have to deal with the hassle of guessing if something will work or not.
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Thanks For The Instructions
I just want to say thank you to all those who have provided information in this thread. With the guidance given I was able to change the color of the toggles from the available purple/green/cyan to what I wanted a teal green and a white version. I only changed the toggle colors nothing else in the notification icons but I feel awesome about it being my first try at anything like this. Both the teal and white look great! I just extracted the images and recolored with gimp then repacked the zip. So thanks! :good:
Amanda (Pimms)
P.S. If anyone wants the teal or white version PM me and I can send you them!
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BlackZenith and I figured out how to change the color of the battery and other icons in the notification bar, you must edit the drawable-xhdpi (note the x :laugh for the images to change from the SystemUI.apk file. Just letting you all know in case you are having trouble with that aspect. I was editing the drawable-hdpi folder at first and when flashed nothing changed.
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impimms said:
BlackZenith and I figured out how to change the color of the battery and other icons in the notification bar, you must edit the drawable-xhdpi (note the x :laugh for the images to change from the SystemUI.apk file. Just letting you all know in case you are having trouble with that aspect. I was editing the drawable-hdpi folder at first and when flashed nothing changed.
Amanda (Pimms)
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I think you may need to do the battery icons in the drawable-xhdpi folder in the Framework-res.apk also.
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Hi, guys
How can I adapt the 15 toogles from this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1677245 (The one that says stock) to our version of our Notes. I tried flashing it and works but I like to see the 4G and 4g Lte icons in the top screen. Thanks.