I am worried about my HD2's hardware buttons, my back button backlight has started to flicker now. so i am worried to use any hardware button at all. the problem is: nav bar doesnt have menu functions unless using paranoid or aokp rom. i love tytung's roms, could go upto the extent of trying to mod the systemui.apk or whatever is needed. or maybe you could help making the nav bar with 5 buttons corresponding to the hardware buttons? we could leave out the 'call' green button and multitasking button could go into home (long press, customizable in rom) or it could get a separate button. so minimal it could be 'home, menu, back, power(invisibe or visible)' or maximal all 5 buttons with nav bar height reduced). that would be a great job done! hope i will hear whats ur idea on this.
Hello:
Will this work on the CM10.1 ROM for Samsung Galaxy II SGH-T989 (T-Mobile) also OR is this specific to the HD2 hardware.
Thanks
I think the mod will only work on this particular Tytung ROM on the HD2. The file that gets modified (SystemUI.apk) is specifically compiled for a particular device.
You could probably make a similar mod for the Galaxy S2. Search the forums for how to use the program apktool and install it on your PC. You also need to have Java installed. It's good to have the Android SDK installed also so that you can zipalign the final package, though this is optional. After apktool is installed, the steps are:
1) Extract the framework-res.apk and SystemUI.apk files from the ROM that you want to modify.
2) Install the framework-res-apk file using the command
apktool if framework-res.apk
3) Decompile the SystemUI.apk file using the command
apktool d SystemUI.apk
4) Modify the SystemUI files. I suggest decompiling one of my mods, both the original SystemUI.apk file and the modded SystemUI.apk file. Compare the two directory trees to see what files were changed. Using that example, you'd have to then modify the Galaxy S2 files.
5) Recompile the SystemUI.apk file using the command
apktool b SystemUI.apk
6) Replace everything in the original SystemUI.apk file with the modded files, leaving only the META-INF folder.
7) Zipalign the new SystemUI.apk file. Search the Google Android docs for how to use zipalign.
7) The final step is to flash the new SystemUI.apk file. My mods use the Aroma installer based on the example of Tytung's ROM installer. You can also unzip your entire ROM on the PC, replace the old SystemUI.apk file with the new one. Then zip the ROM again and flash it to your device. That keeps you from having to learn how to program Aroma.
Good luck if you decide to try this.