[MOD] Windy Weather Live Wallpaper w/ No Watermark

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Waffle265

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I liked the Windy Weather live wallpaper that came with the GSIII, but I didn't like the ever so noticeable watermark that is on it. I've also seen requests for versions without the watermark so, I took it out back and beat it senseless until it was gone. See the screenshots below for a preview. (I will add more screenshots later)


READ BEFORE INSTALLING
- I recommend making a back-up of the original WeatherWall.apk at /system/app BEFORE installing this.
- This only removes the AccuWeather watermark. The name of your current city will still be visible.
- This live wallpaper was pulled from a Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III. Although it should, I have not tested if this will work on other versions of the Galaxy S III. I don't think it will work on other phones (because of screen size issues), but it may!
- You must have root in order to install this.
- Install at YOUR OWN risk. While highly unlikely, I take no responsibility if this damages your phone in any way.


Installation:

Manually:
1. Download the WeatherWall.apk provided and put it on your SD card
2. Open up your favorite file manager application on your phone that has system read and write capability. I prefer Root Explorer
3. Navigate to wherever you placed the downloaded .apk and move it to "system/app" overwriting the unmodified "WeatherWall.apk"
4. Restart your phone and enjoy!

NEW! Flashable: (Easier!)
1. Download the WindyWeather-NoWM.zip provided and put it on your SD card
2. Re/boot to recovery and flash the .zip file
3. Restart your phone and enjoy!

:good:
 

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sincerity

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having trouble wit this....there wasnt a weatherwall in my system/app so I pasted anyway....rebooted and it shows in root explorer, but not under live wallpapers...any ideas?
 

Waffle265

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I can throw one together for you real quick bro....Let me know, I'll PM you the link for it....

If you could show me how you do it I would much appreciate seeing what I'm doing wrong.

having trouble wit this....there wasnt a weatherwall in my system/app so I pasted anyway....rebooted and it shows in root explorer, but not under live wallpapers...any ideas?

If you have any phone other then a Galaxy S3 it may not work.
 
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Waffle265

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i have a verizon S3....if I try to install it fails...

Hmmm... Also make sure when you're overwriting the old one that it sticks. You can do this by looking at the date last modified in your file manager. If it says anything but the current date and time then it did not overwrite it. If that's the case make sure your file manager has SU and root privileges and it is mounted in read and write mode. Once I get a flash working this should be much easier, but it does nothing but fail in TWRP when I try to flash the one I have put together.
 

sincerity

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ok thanks for working on it....but see thats the prob...there wasn't one there originally. maybe the rom i am on had it removed...but either way it should show up after moving it to that folder under live wallpapers right?
 

Waffle265

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The key is to make sure that WeatherWall.apk is your /system/app directory. Normally you should be overwriting an old .apk. Like you said though maybe you're rom doesn't use it so may not work. As far as I know it 100% works with Touchwiz on ICS. Someone said it did work with an AOSP based rom, but I'm not sure if this was ICS or JB.
 

sincerity

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Dec 22, 2010
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The key is to make sure that WeatherWall.apk is your /system/app directory. Normally you should be overwriting an old .apk. Like you said though maybe you're rom doesn't use it so may not work. As far as I know it 100% works with Touchwiz on ICS. Someone said it did work with an AOSP based rom, but I'm not sure if this was ICS or JB.

okay, yea im running AOKP JB and it's def in that file so maybe an issue with JB...
Screenshot_2012-09-07-13-10-09.png
 

tennisjunkie

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Dec 18, 2010
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I am a lil apprehensive having to ask someone this bc it is a lil embarrassing but I went to system/app and was going to backup the windy weather app but it isn't in there....?? Help? Thank u

Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda premium
 

freshjr

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This is sick. It worked flawlessly on my Tmobile S3.

Would removing the city watermark also be possible?
 

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    I liked the Windy Weather live wallpaper that came with the GSIII, but I didn't like the ever so noticeable watermark that is on it. I've also seen requests for versions without the watermark so, I took it out back and beat it senseless until it was gone. See the screenshots below for a preview. (I will add more screenshots later)


    READ BEFORE INSTALLING
    - I recommend making a back-up of the original WeatherWall.apk at /system/app BEFORE installing this.
    - This only removes the AccuWeather watermark. The name of your current city will still be visible.
    - This live wallpaper was pulled from a Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III. Although it should, I have not tested if this will work on other versions of the Galaxy S III. I don't think it will work on other phones (because of screen size issues), but it may!
    - You must have root in order to install this.
    - Install at YOUR OWN risk. While highly unlikely, I take no responsibility if this damages your phone in any way.


    Installation:

    Manually:
    1. Download the WeatherWall.apk provided and put it on your SD card
    2. Open up your favorite file manager application on your phone that has system read and write capability. I prefer Root Explorer
    3. Navigate to wherever you placed the downloaded .apk and move it to "system/app" overwriting the unmodified "WeatherWall.apk"
    4. Restart your phone and enjoy!

    NEW! Flashable: (Easier!)
    1. Download the WindyWeather-NoWM.zip provided and put it on your SD card
    2. Re/boot to recovery and flash the .zip file
    3. Restart your phone and enjoy!

    :good:
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    Code:
    10-02 08:36:18.470  2838  2838 I ActivityThread: Pub com.google.android.apps.plus.content.EsProvider: com.google.android.apps.plus.content.EsProvider
    10-02 08:36:18.470   729   808 E android.os.Debug: !@Dumpstate > dumpstate -k -t -z -d -o /data/log/dumpstate_app_error
    10-02 08:36:18.470  2787  2805 E AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: GLThread 264
    10-02 08:36:18.470  2787  2805 E AndroidRuntime: java.lang.RuntimeException: native typeface cannot be made
    10-02 08:36:18.470  2787  2805 E AndroidRuntime:        at android.graphics.Typeface.<init>(Typeface.java:247)
    10-02 08:36:18.470  2787  2805 E AndroidRuntime:        at android.graphics.Typeface.createFromFile(Typeface.java:241)
    10-02 08:36:18.470  2787  2805 E AndroidRuntime:        at com.sec.ccl.csp.app.secretwallpaper.themetwo.InfoTextView.setTextFont(InfoTextView.java:63)
    10-02 08:36:18.470  2787  2805 E AndroidRuntime:        at com.sec.ccl.csp.app.secretwallpaper.themetwo.SecretWallpaperService$CSPRenderer.loadCityName(SecretWallpaperService.java:2671)
    10-02 08:36:18.470  2787  2805 E AndroidRuntime:        at com.sec.ccl.csp.app.secretwallpaper.themetwo.SecretWallpaperService$CSPRenderer.loadImages(SecretWallpaperService.java:2645)
    10-02 08:36:18.470  2787  2805 E AndroidRuntime:        at com.sec.ccl.csp.app.secretwallpaper.themetwo.SecretWallpaperService$CSPRenderer.onDrawFrame(SecretWallpaperService.java:2749)
    10-02 08:36:18.470  2787  2805 E AndroidRuntime:        at com.sec.ccl.csp.app.secretwallpaper.themetwo.GLThread.guardedRun(GLWallpaperService.java:746)
    10-02 08:36:18.470  2787  2805 E AndroidRuntime:        at com.sec.ccl.csp.app.secretwallpaper.themetwo.GLThread.run(GLWallpaperService.java:585)

    This is on the leaked Sprint JB rom - any idea how to figure out what font it's after?

    ---------- Post added at 09:32 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:43 AM ----------

    Got it. DroidSans.ttf and DroidSans-Bold.ttf aren't actually fonts in the new JB leak, they're just a textfile with the real font name in them. I replaced them with the 4.0.4 versions and rebooted and I have my windmill back.

    Code:
    $ ls -l DroidSans.ttf
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 0 0 18 2098-01-23 04:08 DroidSans.ttf
    $ cat DroidSans.ttf 
    Roboto-Regular.ttf
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    ok I got it working I think. for CM10 you need com.sec.ccl.csp.app.secretwallpaper.themetwo.apk to get it to show up. now I don't have the location being printed on mine so I don't know if the weather is getting updated properly. It's sunny out right now so I can't be sure. I've tried going back to the original to se if it would show the accuweather info and it still had nothing, but I may have mixed things up and overwrote the original with this one. I'm going to a backup and trying again.

    Update:

    Ok tried the original apk, when running on my stock backup had the location and accuweather text, running on CM10, it did not. So, windy weather works, but until the weather changes from clear I won't know if it's getting updated
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    Works on Galaxy Tab 3 7.0

    It works fine on Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 (root - rom=RocketTab)
    Used flash method