Some themeing questions....

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Hey guys, I'm a super noob when it comes to this theming, but I do have a basic understanding of how it all works.

Basically I'm starting work on my first theme and I will be working on Saurom. I had no problem doing the battery stuff, but I cant seem to find the images that correspond to the signal bar and 4g connection. Can anyone tell me what apk has those images?

Also I am always looking to expand my knowledge on theming so if anyone can recommend some good videos or a good write up on the topic I would love to hear from ya.

As always thanks in advance!

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System/app/systemui.apk

decompile that and look in the res/drawable-hdpi and xhdpi

I have some tutorials but I'll have to link them when I get to a computer
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Thanks Smitty, I'll pull that out right now and take a look. Also looking forward to your tutorials.

Well, I'm off to a good start, bricked it lol. I don't think I signed the apk correctly or I did something wrong pushing it onto the phone. I think I'll wait for the link to those tutorials before I cause some real damage.

Look into framework and twframework apks too under /system/framework. These too contain icons under res/drawable-hdpi and xhdpi

Yeah there will be signal and battery icons in a few different locations. But in this case you want to look in systemui/res/drawable-xhdpi as smitty stated. If youre having trouble finding certain pngs, feel free to ask, and we can save you some time =)

Alright, I've been furiously editing png files, and I want to see what it looks like on the phone. I think I'm doing something wrong though when I try and put the apks back. I'll run down what I'm doing and maybe someone can tell me where I'm going wrong. I'm using APK Multi-Tool


This is for framework-res.apk
1. Put all the edited png files back in their respective folders.
2. In apk multi tool, press 3 for 'Zip apk'
3. I press 1 for 'System apk (retains signature)'
4. I go rename the unsignedframework-res.apk to framework-res.apk

while phone is booted normally:
5. adb remount
6. adb push framework-res.apk /system/framework
7. adb remount
8. adb reboot

Now the phone will start booting and then screen goes black. I am forced to restore a nandroid.

Try using APKManager for framework-res.apk.I have better luck with that one for framework for some reason.

Yeah I'm doing something wrong. I did the same as above for SystemUI.apk and it booted alright but the notification pulldown and status bar were missing. Does the problem really lie with APK Multi-Tool?

Ok, I seemed to have found the problem. The issue was being being caused by the script in APK Multi Tool. I changed this line

%szip% a -tzip "place-apk-here-for-modding/unsigned%capp%" "projects/%capp%/*" -mx%usrc%

to this:

%szip% a -tzip "./place-apk-here-for-modding/unsigned%capp%" "./projects/%capp%/*" -mx%usrc%

for some reason the first line would include the /projects/framework.apk/ directories in the rezipped apk, this would then cause the bootloops and crashes.

Well anyway everything works now! So excited, here is a couple screen grabs of my recoloring so far of Saurom. It's very simple and I will be doing much more work on it, but I am really just going for a very simple blue theme.