[All Carriers]Touch Wiz Themeing Questions

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TeamERA

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You have the correct framework resources installed?

Ah I forgot to load the framework file, good call man...

And you know whats funny, is Ive found the name/location of this file the hard way, and Ive been told twice before. Either the files are just really wacky this time around, or that file name/location is a curse for me :(. Ive seen it be a single dot.9 patch fill file (really small), and Ive seen it be a bigger image, and Im still looking. But my eyes are killing me now.
 

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Ah I forgot to load the framework file, good call man...

And you know whats funny, is Ive found the name/location of this file the hard way, and Ive been told twice before. Either the files are just really wacky this time around, or that file name/location is a curse for me :(. Ive seen it be a single dot.9 patch fill file (really small), and Ive seen it be a bigger image, and Im still looking. But my eyes are killing me now.

I remember you saying something about that a few months ago on the ET4G. I looked but couldn't find anything that looked like it might be it, more importantly I didn't find anything in the xml files that would point to that.

If you haven't seen it go back to my last post on page 2. That is what I found in the xml files.
 

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Yeah, well if I remember right it was always a file, not an xml edit. The hard way was to add diff color dots to each black image I came across in drawable-hdpi on the et4g, now xhdpi, but that took forever. I may have to do the same thing. But ill ask around first, maybe tomorrow. Im about to be gettin down for the fourth ;) At home this year, but still fun. So I wont post in anyones theme thread just yet, since Id rather people have fun today :)


Edit, and the thread your thinking of was for the actually notification box, like when you get a text message. But I have had several of those threads also. The one where you helped was an xml edit because it was for cm9 I think.
 

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Just the thread I was looking for...

Haven't done a whole lot of ICS themeing (GB use to be so much easier), and especially not with TouchWiz. Anyway, I have the following questions in reference to the screen shot below. Most of these changes, if not all, I believe are in the SystemUI. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.


1) How the hell do you get rid of the carrier ID? Also, if I wanted to move it to where the date currently is in the notification menu, how would this be accomplished?

2) How do I change the quick menu toggle color? Is it a hexcode or a png... haven't been able to find it anywhere? Maybe in the framework-res?

3) For future's sake & reference which xml is this color at (the background for the toggles)?

4) How do I right align the date by the settings button?

5) Text color location for this?

6) Background Color for this?

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F.Y.I. This apk manager works perfect for decompiling and recompiling the systemui and framework-res, for the SGS3. Don't forget to install your framework-res first.
http://wanamlite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=30
 

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Ok, I guess it's time for me to dig in. I'll start working on xml's tonight.

2 is tw_quick_panel_off.9.png & tw_quick_panel_on.9.png
 

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Just the thread I was looking for...

Haven't done a whole lot of ICS themeing (GB use to be so much easier), and especially not with TouchWiz. Anyway, I have the following questions in reference to the screen shot below. Most of these changes, if not all, I believe are in the SystemUI. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.


1) How the hell do you get rid of the carrier ID? Also, if I wanted to move it to where the date currently is in the notification menu, how would this be accomplished?

2) How do I change the quick menu toggle color? Is it a hexcode or a png... haven't been able to find it anywhere? Maybe in the framework-res?

3) For future's sake & reference which xml is this color at (the background for the toggles)?

4) How do I right align the date by the settings button?

5) Text color location for this?

6) Background Color for this?

71689693.png



F.Y.I. This apk manager works perfect for decompiling and recompiling the systemui and framework-res, for the SGS3. Don't forget to install your framework-res first.
http://wanamlite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=30

I believe 2 and 6 are png files. 3 for sure is a very small .9 dot image

#2 i think is tw_quick_panel_on.9.png

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How do I de-compile any of the touchwiz apk's.
ApkManager doesn't work anymore.
Is there anything else fairly simple that we could use to de-compile?

EDIT: saw the post above with the link to the new apkmanager.
thanks.
will give that a try.
 

shane6374

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@TeamERA:

Found it, and it is an xml. tw_status_bar_tracking.xml

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<com.android.systemui.statusbar.phone.TrackingView android:orientation="vertical" android:paddingLeft="0.0px" android:paddingRight="0.0px" android:paddingBottom="0.0px" android:focusable="true" android:visibility="gone" android:descendantFocusability="afterDescendants"
  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <FrameLayout [COLOR="Red"]android:background="#ff000000"[/COLOR] android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_weight="1.0" />
    <com.android.systemui.statusbar.phone.CloseDragHandle android:orientation="vertical" android:id="@id/close" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content">
        <ImageView android:layout_gravity="bottom" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:src="@drawable/tw_status_bar_close_on" android:scaleType="fitXY" />
    </com.android.systemui.statusbar.phone.CloseDragHandle>
</com.android.systemui.statusbar.phone.TrackingView>
I changed it to #88000000 and it became semi-transparent.

@Swiftks: We don't have the carrier in the status bar on the Sprint version. It's in the location where you want it on yours, same with the date.
 

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nicely done shane! Can't wait to try it out lol

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@TeamERA:

Found it, and it is an xml. tw_status_bar_tracking.xml

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<com.android.systemui.statusbar.phone.TrackingView android:orientation="vertical" android:paddingLeft="0.0px" android:paddingRight="0.0px" android:paddingBottom="0.0px" android:focusable="true" android:visibility="gone" android:descendantFocusability="afterDescendants"
  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <FrameLayout [COLOR="Red"]android:background="#ff000000"[/COLOR] android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_weight="1.0" />
    <com.android.systemui.statusbar.phone.CloseDragHandle android:orientation="vertical" android:id="@id/close" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content">
        <ImageView android:layout_gravity="bottom" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:src="@drawable/tw_status_bar_close_on" android:scaleType="fitXY" />
    </com.android.systemui.statusbar.phone.CloseDragHandle>
</com.android.systemui.statusbar.phone.TrackingView>
I changed it to #88000000 and it became semi-transparent.

@Swiftks: We don't have the carrier in the status bar on the Sprint version. It's in the location where you want it on yours, same with the date.



So whats the color code for 95% transparent?

Edit: actually, Im thinking gimp, what I mean to say is adding 5% transparency.
 

shane6374

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So whats the color code for 95% transparent?

Edit: actually, Im thinking gimp, what I mean to say is adding 5% transparency.
#F2000000 would be very close.

Think I might have found the location of the carrier id label for those that have it on the status bar.

tw_status_bar.xml
Code:
<com.android.systemui.statusbar.phone.CarrierLabel android:gravity="center_vertical" android:id="@id/carrierLabel" android:background="#ff000000" android:paddingLeft="4.0dip" android:paddingRight="4.0dip" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:singleLine="true" />
 

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Could anyone help me on how to revert a transparent status bar (not pull down) back to being 100% non transparent?

Also could anyone tell me what to edit to change the order for which the toggles appear?

"All this knowledge is giving me a raging brainer!"
 

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Could anyone help me on how to revert a transparent status bar (not pull down) back to being 100% non transparent?

Also could anyone tell me what to edit to change the order for which the toggles appear?

"All this knowledge is giving me a raging brainer!"

Why is the status bar not transparent? So far I've found 2 places where you can change the status bar back ground. One is the drawables.xml and the other is in the tw_status_bar.xml.

The toggles is smali. If you would want to tackle that sbrissen or Maddoggin is who I would ask, but you had better have some java and smali experience before even asking them about this.
 

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Could anyone help me on how to revert a transparent status bar (not pull down) back to being 100% non transparent?

Also could anyone tell me what to edit to change the order for which the toggles appear?

"All this knowledge is giving me a raging brainer!"

Off top of my head you need to change the color in drawables xml back to black and change the status bar smali back to const 0x4 (transparent line is -0x3).

Ok in StatusBar.smali
Code:
const/16 v16, -0x3
needs to be changed back to
Code:
const/16 v16, 0x4


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---------- Post added at 11:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:17 PM ----------

So got it to stick, went with 50% but it looks a little funny lol

Screenshot_2012-07-04-23-12-07.png
 

shane6374

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Off top of my head you need to change the color in drawables xml back to black and change the status bar smali back to const 0x4 (transparent line is -0x3).

Ok in StatusBar.smali
Code:
const/16 v16, -0x3
needs to be changed back to
Code:
const/16 v16, 0x4


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---------- Post added at 11:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:17 PM ----------

So got it to stick, went with 50% but it looks a little funny lol

Screenshot_2012-07-04-23-12-07.png

Did you have to adjust the status bar smali or were you able to do it with an alpha adjustment in the drawables.xml?
 

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