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il Duce
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That's not much of a lock screen, meaning there's nothing there to mod. I would try widget locker, it has unlimited options, different lock styles, widgets on lockscreen, music controls etc. It is a paid app but well worth the couple bucks. You can customize it any way you want, there are many themes here on XDA for it as well.
I was applying transparency to the status bar and pull down notification. That went ok, but resulted in the gps reticle being a permanent icon. So I tried following SteelH's advice of going into the services.jar to edit the smali script of htcCdmaStatusBar, but it wasn't where he suggested.
I poked around the other apk and found said smali in the SystemUI.apk. However rather than two instances of the script which he said to edit I found three.
Perhaps it isn't the right smali, but would there be more than one version of it?
I've used widget locker in the past but always go back to the stock lock screen for some reason. I have a different screen shot. But I guess I'll give widget locker another try. Sorry for the confusion. Long day at work.
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il Duce
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Often the lines are off a little in smali. What device? I'm sure it's in services.jar. You could link his tutorial and your decompiled smali folder from the jar and I could try to find it.
I'm using the HTC Evo 4G.
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=780614
There's a 7zip attached of my decompiled services.jar. Above is the link I've been using. I'll say that there doesn't seem to be a status folder/sub directory.
I've included a decompiled SystemUI.apk as well as this is where I found the smali for HtcCdmaStatusBar (smali/com/android/systemui/statusbar/policy)
Thanks for any help you can give me
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=780614
There's a 7zip attached of my decompiled services.jar. Above is the link I've been using. I'll say that there doesn't seem to be a status folder/sub directory.
I've included a decompiled SystemUI.apk as well as this is where I found the smali for HtcCdmaStatusBar (smali/com/android/systemui/statusbar/policy)
Thanks for any help you can give me
il Duce
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I'm using the HTC Evo 4G.
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=780614
There's a 7zip attached of my decompiled services.jar. Above is the link I've been using. I'll say that there doesn't seem to be a status folder/sub directory.
I've included a decompiled SystemUI.apk as well as this is where I found the smali for HtcCdmaStatusBar (smali/com/android/systemui/statusbar/policy)
Thanks for any help you can give me
so my guess is you're not on stock sense. maybe 2.1/3.0? anywho, yes the smali IS in systemUI, where you found it. Not entirely sure if you modded it but I'm guessing you did.
I looked at steel's guide for sense 3 here:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1200161
and in your smali here:
.method private updateMtGpsIcon()V
.locals 7
.prologue
const/4 v4, 0x3
const/4 v2, 0x0
did you change that ? did the 0x0 used to say 0x1? if you modded it did it already work?
This is stock sense for the Japanese Evo. 2.1 yeah. I've only de-sensed it.
And I haven't modded any of those values for the gps icon. That's what is there.
Okay. I hadn't seen that thread. I will have a look again.
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il Duce
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Oh then try changing the 3 to a 0 and push. Good luck
I'm putting these into a ROM I'm modding on my computer. Once I've recompiled should I take the files out of the new apk and copy them into the old one or replace completely? I mean I have the res folder, the Manifest.xml, resources.arsc, and classes.dex. Do I copy all of them over to the original apk?
EDIT: I finally got my status bar transparent without the GPS reticle. Thanks for the help il Duce
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Hey everyone,
I saw this thread and thought it might be a good resource to start sharing some of my guides and tutorials with the xda community. Ever since I started Modding my first android phone I've wanted to give back to the community to make it a better place. I've posted a few ROMs but really I'm such a faildev.
I've written several guides on my own Ultimate Phone Guide site. I created the site because I didn't want flood forums with too many of my own guides. But I have written an extremely complete guide to CyanogenMod and I plan on writing guides for other ROMs like AOKP and MIUI. My guides are generally aimed at novice flashers that have decent experience with Android and want to get the most out of their device by exploring custom ROMs.
If anyone wants to check the site out the link is in my signature. Front page needs some editing but the actual guides are well formatted. I just don't know if my guides are worthy of dedicated threads on XDA. I write them when I'm bored with my devices and I just thought I'd post this to share the site. The site is open information completely nonprofit and it is a wiki so anyone can add posts to it.
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I saw this thread and thought it might be a good resource to start sharing some of my guides and tutorials with the xda community. Ever since I started Modding my first android phone I've wanted to give back to the community to make it a better place. I've posted a few ROMs but really I'm such a faildev.
I've written several guides on my own Ultimate Phone Guide site. I created the site because I didn't want flood forums with too many of my own guides. But I have written an extremely complete guide to CyanogenMod and I plan on writing guides for other ROMs like AOKP and MIUI. My guides are generally aimed at novice flashers that have decent experience with Android and want to get the most out of their device by exploring custom ROMs.
If anyone wants to check the site out the link is in my signature. Front page needs some editing but the actual guides are well formatted. I just don't know if my guides are worthy of dedicated threads on XDA. I write them when I'm bored with my devices and I just thought I'd post this to share the site. The site is open information completely nonprofit and it is a wiki so anyone can add posts to it.
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An animated dropdown tutorial would be nice .hint hint fernando .seen a guide before but the links for the required files are multiupload fails .
Would like to take a peak at those files lol.
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Would like to take a peak at those files lol.
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an astonishing number of electrons ,however,were terribly inconvenienced
The first link for the quick setting smali and graphics is down. Is there another way to get this file?
I'll ask him or Gruesome Wolf if one of them would write one. GW did the original I believe, he's also done an animated app drawer. They are pretty sick mods.
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Thanks Bill, pm or email it to me and I'll put it right in the Op.
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You may want to add the link as it can't be viewed from the app
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88Many very accomplished Devs, themers and modders are available and ready to help others. With that said, this is an open invitation for anyone to post and ask for help or advise on how to do anything Android related. There is a wealth of knowledge here on XDA, and I believe that it should be shared.
NOTE***Most of these tutorials are for sense devices, but would love to see this become a thread for everyone.
NOTE***If you have a mod tutorial that you would like linked in the OP, pm me with the tutorial and I will link it.
A few easy rules to follow......
This will be a friendly forum, with no flaming for asking questions. Without someone asking questions, there simply are NO answers.
This is not a thread where someone will do everything for you, it is intended to teach. So get your pencils ready.
Please make sure you show respect to those that have helped you, after all, they don't have to. Hitting a THANKS is sufficient.
To start things off here are a boat load of tutorials that my friends and I have compiled that are very helpful, as well as links to tools that are commonly needed. I will add more tutorials periodically, so check back often.
All these people are to be commended for their efforts in helping others become better devs, themers and modders. I personally have learned a ton from all of them.
Guide/Tutorial Links
Fernando Sor's "text color guide"
pstevep's "m10 and you (a love story)"
Vinchenzop's "metamorph guide"
Average Joes' Notification Dropdown Text Color Changes/Status Bar Changes (Sense 3.0) Tutorial
il Duce's post linking multiple tutorials bunch of links, just check it.
theimpaler747's Want to learn how to theme [Guide]
KBanause's Guide for Android 2.3 for aosp
freeza's transparent notification pulldown guide
tommytomatoe's What You Know about Rosie
platinumandroid's themebuilding101.txt
steal25's adb tutorial links and skin tutorial
eg1122's guide to sense 3.0 editor
hockeyfamily737's Miui Theme Guide
dkdude's .9.png editing guide
fernando sor's hex editing guide
eg1122's change dialer text doc
whiterider13's odex info
fernando sor's custom background or text tutorial
eg1122's how to setup sense 3.0 editor
slayer69's .9.png doc
Papa Smurf151's .9.png addendum
steal25's How to zipalign
steal25's twrp 2.0 theme info
dased14's bootanimation guide
tommytomatoe's sense transparency guide
knightwolf123's Skins thread and Skin guides
genetic_shift's lockscreen background png name
jeffsanace's M10 modification tutorials
dropzeroc's Guide to enable wallpaper scrolling and disable carousel animations
dropzeroc's mod for wallpaper scrolling and disable carousel animations
il duce's sense lockscreen mods
il duce's sense minimalize lockscreen music widget
KemikalElite's Ultimate Phone Guide
Adding an animated dropdown (sense 3.0) Tutorial written by Gunthermic (original mod by Gruesome Wolf)
Ajthescot's setting up Android SDK for windows 7
Bill Bowers tutorial on adding transparency to most of sense 3.0 (original mod by Fernando Sor)
Fernando Sor's addition to Bill Bowers sense transparency tutorial
il Duce's tutorial on how to make lockscreen shortcuts and text straight(sense 3.0)
mDroidd's "Studio Android" Modding made easier (windows support coming soon)
TOOL LINKS
- Papa Smurf151's {Dev Tools} Everything Android
- tommytomatoe's Android Utility for linux/mac
- Papa Smurf151's version of apk manager
- links to Xultimate
- 7zip - I use it all the time, you can alter zips quickly and easily.
- M10 Tools - If you are going to theme sense 3.0 at all, you will need this.
- Notepad ++ - Essential for editing xmls, scripts, etc.
- gimp - Great tool for editing images, especially if you don't want to pay for photoshop.
- APK Tool - For decompiling and recompiling apks.
- APK Manager - It incorporates APK Tool, but makes it a little more user friendly.10how to "minimalize" sense 3.0 lockscreen music widget
This took a LONG time to figure out, hope you all enjoy!
FYI: any of these visible edits are simple, once on the correct item, the box on the right has a value "visible=1" and we change that to "visible=0" in the top edit box, to remove the image. Below when I say "set to 0" that's what I mean.
MINIMAL SENSE LS MUSIC WIDGET.
1. load Idlescreen_Base.apk with m10 tools.
2. decompile Lockscreen_music.m10
3. expand 0x0dc10c5e/Lockscreen_music/
4. /Musicpanel_front - set to 0. (oddly this is the whole rear "flipped" image)
5. expand /Musicpanel_back/
6. /dy.musiccover_photo - set to 0
7. /lockscreen_music_next_indidcator - set to 0
8. /lockscreen_music_previous_indic - set to 0
9. collapse both Musicpanels (less confusing this way) THEN expand lockscreen_squarepanel/
10. /lockscreen_squarepanel.png - set to 0
11. /lockscreen_squarepanel.png (the second one) - set to 0
that's it
(it looks like the pic) except the colors and icons and all that, that's another deal.10sense lockscreen mods
These should work on sense 3.0, 3.5, and 3.6 (I think). These are all bool edits with m10 editor. These are all done in Idlescreen_Base.apk
FYI: any of these visible edits are simple, once on the correct item, the box on the right has a value "visible=1" and we change that to "visible=0" in the top edit box, to remove the image. Below when I say "set to 0" that's what I mean.
A) remove shortcut text labels:
Go to: Lockscreen_shortcut.m10/0x0dc105ce/Lockscreen_Shortcut/
1. /textcomp.shortcut_name4 - set to 0
2. /textcomp.shortcut_name3 - set to 0
3. /textcomp.shortcut_name2 - set to 0
4. /textcomp.shortcut_name1 - set to 0
B) remove shortcut background bubbles:
Go to: Lockscreen_shortcut.m10/0x0dc105ce/Lockscreen_Shortcut/
1. /timeline.shortcutpanel/lockscreen_shortcutpanel_b.png (first) - set to 0
2. /timeline.shortcutpanel/lockscreen_shortcutpanel_b.png (second) - set to 0
3. /timeline.shortcutpanel/lockscreen_shortcutpanel_b.png (third) - set to 0
4. /timeline.shortcutpanel/lockscreen_shortcutpanel_b.png (fourth) - set to 0
C) remove operator name, time, am/pm, date, and text "pull ring to unlock":
Go to: Lockscreen_time.m10/0x0dc105ce/lockscreen_time/timeline.time_fade/
1. /text.lockscreentime_operator - set to 0
2. /text.lockscreentime_time - set to 0
3. /text.lockscreentime_ampm - set to 0
4. /text.lockscreentime_date - set to 0
Go to: Lockscreen_time.m10/0x0dc105ce/lockscreen_time/
1. /textcomp.pull_unlock - set to 0
D) remove lockscreen navbar, and the ring ripples when you touch the screen:
Go to: Lock_ring_motion.m10/0x0dc105ce/Lock_ring_motion/
1. /lockscreen_navbar.png - set to 0
2. /ring_bounce (first) - set to 0
3. /ring_bounce (second) - set to 0
4. /ring_bounce (third) - set to 0
5. /ring_bounce (fourth) - set to 0
6. /ring_bounce (fifth) - set to 0
7. /ring_bounce (sixth) - set to 0
...more to come...
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FYI: some of these visible edits are simple, once on the correct item, the box on the right has a value "visible=1" and we change that to "visible=0" in the top edit box, to remove the image. Below when I say "set to 0" that's what I mean.
A) how to remove loading errors (like "weather data not available") go away. For this example I will ONLY describe the how to for weather, but the same logic applies to any loading errors.
Go to /Lockscreen_common_error.m10/0x0dc105ce/
1. /timeline.common_error_bigicon/timeline.error_noweather/ - set to 0
2. /lockscreen_squarepanel/lockscreen_squarepanel.png (first) - set to 0
3. /lockscreen_squarepanel/lockscreen_squarepanel.png (second) - set to 0
B) how to make LS notification bg black (I'm going to explain calendar, but the logic applies to any of the m10s, I've customized them all)
(I'll explain... So I use the weather lock, and for instance, when a call comes in or a text or a calendar event, it pops up over the lockscreen, and has a "shaded" darker filter over the lockscreen background. I wanted that black, so that when an active notification was present you could NOT see the background at all, but when there was NO notification, it displayed normally)
Go to Lockscreen_calendar.m10/0x0dc10c5e/Lockscreen_calendar/Black_overlay/
1. on the right side find "opacity=0.59999996" (which is stock shading fyi)
2. click the opacity number and in the edit box up top you can:
3. set to 1 for complete black background shade (I did this for missed call, incoming call, text, a few others)
4. set to 0 for no shade at all (I did this for music, common error, etc)
tah daaahhhhh8Well, here's my little contribution to the thread... this was actually done by fernando, but i didn't see it listed on the OP so, i thought i'd write it up. All credit for this mod to fernando sor.
A SIMPLE WAY TO DO TRANSPARENCY THROUGHOUT MOST OF THE SYSTEM.
Decompile com.htc.resources and open res/values/styles.xml
Change this code (on line 401)
<style name="Htc" parent="@android:style/Theme">
to this code:
style name="Htc" parent="@android:style/Theme.Wallpaper">
Then add this item:
<item name="android:windowBackground">@color/transparent</item>
recompile and enjoy transparent goodness.
This mod will effect several system apps as well as many other user installed apps (xda, tapatalk, gtalk, ect...)
