[ROM][KK 4.4] Avatar ROM for HTC Evo 4G (Jewel) - Updated[Feb 17, 2014]

Details:

• Android JB - 4.2.2
• CM10.1

Instructions:

If it's the first time flashing avatarrom or coming from another ROM

Our Changes:

• The platform for avatarrom as of now is CM10.1. The following components are changed on top CM10.1.
  
• Status Bar
  • Fixed memory leaks
• Theme Chooser
  • Google playstore like theme chooser - head here and download cool MIUI converted themes and CM themes.
• Bazooka Launcher (market link)
  • Own launcher which is an enhanced version of Trebuchet (you can download this at the end of this post)
  • Enhanced theming by adding dockbar
  • Preview mode to edit workspaces
  • Many new Customization options.
  • Different gestures like swipe-up, swipe-down, double-tap, home-button press are added.
  • Added "edit workspace" option in menu button.
• Messaging App
  • Changed message thread to make them themeable
  • Themeable Emoticons
• Boot Animation
  • Themeable boot animation - the only CM ROM to do so.
• Font Theming
  • Only ROM to support change of font without a reboot.
  • Tons of themes which change font - Eg: Buff, Simpsons, Mi_Xmas, European Gorgeous etc
• Settings
  • Changed statistics to point to Avatar statistics server
  • OTA updater - you can check for updates to Avatar right from your device
  • Changed to support Avatar ROMs
  • Support for Gapps - download latest Gapps package as an OTA update
• Framework
  • Integrated with ACRA Error Reporter for system wide crashes
• Lockscreen
  • Changed to make them themeable
  • Support for complex unlock gestures
• Weebo
  • A smart tasker kind of app which can help you to automate your device.
  • You can use exisiting rules or create your own customized rules for your needs.
  • More info - Link
• Layout Theming
  • Themes not only change images, colors but it also can change the size, shape and position of any UI element.
  • More info - Link
• Theme Editor
  • A tool to insulate you from all the complex operations involved in theming.
  • More info - Link
  • usage - Link

Recent Changelog

Oct 19th 2013 - 3.1.6 nightly changelog

• Launcher:
  • Fix for Market Launcher UPDATE issue in our Avatar Rom
  • Fix for double tapped on Home button where animation was stopped in between
  • Minor fix for seekbar paddin
• ThemeChooser:
  • Tone stop issue fix
  • null check for appcount display in store tab View
  • Feature: play tone on clicking tone select item in ThemeMixManager (Missed file added back)
  • Default Image changed
  • Boot animation and font renderer added in theme Mix
  • Feature: play tone on clicking tone select item in ThemeMixManager
  • ThemeMixmanager enabled

24/08/2013 - 3.1 Nightly changelog

• Launcher
  • Fixed a bug with folders not working correctly
• ThemeChooser
  • Bug fix: download themes when wifi is on
  • Fixed a bug Theme Engine Versioning
  • Fixed a bug with System Theme
• Updated to the latest CM changes i.e midnight, 22st August.

19/08/2013 - 3.1 Nightly changelog

• Launcher
  • Fixed a bug with an extra gallery icon appearing at times
• Updated to the latest CM changes i.e midnight, 16th August.

08/10/2013 - 3.1 Nightly changelog

• Launcher
  • Black shadow in Landscape
  • Drawer default transition -Cube In and out
• Removed icon showing for themes in installed tab and showing default gray image
• Updated to the latest CM changes i.e midnight, 8th August.

07/28/2012 - Nightly release 3.0.2 changelog

• CyanogenMod merges till July 25th 2013
• Lockscreen crash fixes due to incorrect lockscreen manifest.
• Fix contact crashes
  • T9SearchCache : Fix NPE when number is null after stripping separators.
    http://errorreporter.avatarrom.com:3000/report?type=release&id=51ef5ffcdca167a60500eb58
  • T9SearchCache : Fix NPE in T9Adapter.getView when mPrevInput is null.
    http://errorreporter.avatarrom.com:3000/report?type=release&id=51ef4e09dca167a60500eb44
• Apollo crash fixes
  • ImageCache: Fix NPE when there is no external storage available.
    http://errorreporter.avatarrom.com:3000/report?type=release&id=51f2643edca167a60500f50e
  • ShortcutActivity : Fix NPE when there are no extras in intent.
    http://errorreporter.avatarrom.com:3000/report?type=release&id=51ef37b9dca167a60500eb03
• Toggle GCM push notifications in settings.
  
  Note: Please don't use iPhone theme as it is causes crashes in latest ROM. We are looking in to the issue, by monday it will be fine.

07/21/2013 - AvatarROM 3.0.1 Nightly release

• Update to latest cyanogenmod (till July 17) which has
  • Support for exfat, ntfs partitions
  • Some preliminary support for selinux
• Themechooser is using action bar
• Launcher
  • Fixed major issues and Critical crashes reported in error reporter have been fixed.
  • Some performance optimizations have been made when scrolling the workspace.

Stable release 3.0 - 07/02/2013
As CM10.1 has hit the general release, Avatar Team is branching with stable and nightly releases.

Stable releases are marked as 3.0. This is the first stable release from Avatar Team. Stable releases will be weekly or bi-weekly and will be tested extensively by our testing team.

Nightly releases will kickstart in a few days. We will merge CM changes every day and it will also contain experimental features from Avatar.

We highly recommend to wipe cache/data/dalvik before flashing the stable releases.

Changelog:

Based on CM10.1.0 (General Release)

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  06/23/2013 - AvatarROM 2.16b release
• Launcher
  • Bug fixes from error reporter.
  • Added percentage indicator for transparency option.
  • Fixed transparency related issues.
  Weebo
  • Broken rule UI changes.
  • Changes in all rules screen buttons.
  • Fixed minor issues with editing rules.
  Theme Chooser
  • Implemented search functionality.
  • Partial fix for community themes.
  • Bug fixes - New themes are sometimes not available until clearing cache.
  • Bug fixes - Memory leaks.
  
  Crashes Fixed in 2.16b
  i. Lots of contact app crash fixes.
  1. Invalid Call Type
  http://errorreporter.avatarrom.com:3000/report?type=release&id=51c1c77adca167a60500684e
  2. Handle null cursor in AsyncQueryHandler
  http://errorreporter.avatarrom.com:3000/report?type=release&id=51c0d284dca167a6050065c6
  3. Fix NPE when onCallStateChanged callback is called and the fragment is not active
  http://errorreporter.avatarrom.com:3000/report?type=release&id=51c05192dca167a605006438
  4. NPE in T9SearchCache.getView --
  http://errorreporter.avatarrom.com:3000/report?type=release&id=51bb69badca167a6050056f
  5. Validate current tab when loading from property. Causing IndexOutOfBoundException
  https://ninetology.atlassian.net/browse/NINE-1074
  6. DialpadFragment: afterTextChange callback is called when there is no activity, leading to NPE. Check if activity is alive.
  http://errorreporter.avatarrom.com:3000/report?type=release&id=51bb4a80dca167a6050056b2
  7. ContactSelectionActivity : IllegalStateException was thrown for DEFAULT_ACTION. Handle it.
  http://errorreporter.avatarrom.com:3000/report?type=release&id=51b552f3dca167a6050046a2
  8. CallLogNotificationsService : Handle null intent in onHandleIntent.
  http://errorreporter.avatarrom.com:3000/report?type=release&id=51b4f4bcdca167a605004582
  9. ContactDetailFragment : NPE during QuickFix
  http://errorreporter.avatarrom.com:3000/report?type=release&id=51bb16b9dca167a60500562c
  
  ii. Settings
  1. LockscreenTargets : Fix NPE in getLayeredDrawable
  http://errorreporter.avatarrom.com:3000/report?type=release&id=51bedfcfdca167a605005fa3
  2. Apply cobalt theme. Settings -> Lockscreen -> Slider Shortcuts -> Select any short -> Change Icon -> System Icon -> Select Any -- crash ..
  http://errorreporter.avatarrom.com:3000/report?type=release&id=51c07d69dca167a6050064d3
  3. Settings -> Lockscreen -> Security -> Screen Lock -> Pattern -> any 3x3 suppose -> Draw something -> Press power button to lock --> crash
  http://errorreporter.avatarrom.com:3000/report?type=release&id=51bf8612dca167a6050061e7
  
  iii. Download Manager
  1. OpenHelper : Fix NPE when mimeType is null
  http://errorreporter.avatarrom.com:3000/report?type=release&id=51bfcb10dca167a6050062b5
  2. Fix NPE in removeSpuriousFiles, when there is no cache dir
  
  iv. Input keyboard
  RichInputConnection : Fix NPE in setComposingRegion
  http://errorreporter.avatarrom.com:3000/report?type=release&id=51c125c5dca167a605006698

06/16/2013 - AvatarROM 2.15b release

• CyanogenMod RC5 merges.
• Fixes in Theme chooser.
• Launcher:
  • Grid size issue fixed across all devices and resolutions.
  • Transparency setting changed(1 to 10 transparency, also moved from general to Drawer).
  • Fixed the issue with the transparent fade animation while going from Apps to Widgets.
  • Fixed some crashes.
• Weebo:
  • New UI for editing rules.
  • Shows a dialog if rule is broken. If the rule is fine, user can directly enable/disable the rule by tapping on it.
  • Weebo icon changed.
  ***If you need the functionality of flashing Avatar ROM and Gapps in ROMS <= 2.13b, you can push the CMUpdater.apk to /system/app. ***

05/11/2013 - Avatar team is proud to present the 2.10b version based on the latest CM 10.1 RC base (Stable build).

• Merged with CM 10.1 RC1 tag (May 8th, 2013)
• Added more space between wifi and signal icons in status bar
• Added gapps version in Error Reporter
• Message Bubbles - Reset the bubbles similar to stock version bubble when not themed.
• Theme Chooser - Themes now display the size of the apk.
• Theme Chooser - Fixed memory leaks
• Theme Chooser - Fixed download problems with some themes - cobalt blue, cobalt inferno etc
• Bazooka --> Fixed Widget scolling issue when Widgets are placed on Home screen.
• Bazooka --> Fixed the dockbar pages issue. You can select number of pages in Settings screen of Bazooka launcher.
• Bazooka --> Other minor bug fixes.
• Weebo --> Fixing the issue where files cannot be read from /mnt/sdcard/weebo folder.
• Weebo --> Contact picker to make it simpler to select the contacts you want to call/send message to.
• Weebo --> New categories in "All rules" callled Enabled and Disabled. This shows currently enabled/disabled rules.
• Weebo --> Location exit condition bug fixed. You can now trigger actions when you leave a particular location.

Existing Avatar ROM Users - Hit the refresh button from "settings -> About Phone -> Avatar ROM Updates" for download via OTA
AvatarROM is now available for download via ROM Toolbox lite and pro versions. Thanks jrummy.
Previous releases

Download Avatar ROM for HTC Evo 4G (Jewel) :



Videos:

Sample Video - checkout our MIUI style lockscreens, statusbar, messaging, etc and the smooth transition of themes:


Review by Phone tech kid


All Videos

Credits:

• Cyanogen Team
• Trebuchet launcher
• MiUi Theme creators

If there are any errors let us know in the comments or file the bug at http://issues.avatarrom.com

You can find more information at http://www.avatarrom.com

Feature request page - https://avatarrom.uservoice.com/forums/193652-avatarrom-feature-request

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Avatar Team is proud to present the first beta release of Layout Themeing.

We all have seen how themes change images, icons, drawables, colors etc. But this is the first time you will see how a theme can change the position of UI elements (buttons, labels, etc). Never before an attempt like this was made in the history of Android.

Eg: "Close all apps" button in the recent apps list is on the top-right corner. If you are a left handed user, reaching the top-right corner on a 5 inch phone is not easy. With layout theming, you can move the position from top-right to left-bottom.

Demo:

Lets take up a simple example. We have seen different version of dialer in different operating system. By applying a theme, we can now have the exact same dialer in Android. Not only the buttons look the same, it is also positioned at the exact location.

System UI (System app) - Link
Iphone style (Theme) - Link
Circular dialer (Theme) - Link
Blackberry dialer (Theme) - Link
Recent apps (Theme)- Link

Install Instructions:

1. Push the systemUI.apk to /system/app (Eg: "adb push systemUI.apk /system/app")
2. Install the themes as any normal android application (Eg: "adb install -r iphone.apk")
3. Go to theme chooser and apply your preferred theme
4. Open the dialer and check out how look and feel changes which each theme.

Some Surprises

1. Check out the clock position on the status bar. Yes it is centered. We can move anything to anywhere.
2. In the recent apps theme, we have moved "Close all apps " in the recent apps list from top-right to bottom-left

Layout themeing will be part of AvatarROM soon and we are working on some cool concepts. We would love to hear what you want to see in layout theming. Post your ideas in our feature request page.

MiStyle Theme release

Releasing one more new theme MiStyle in our Avatar theme stores, check below screenshots. The same is available in our new theme chooser.

Update to AvatarROM

Few hours from now, we will be building AvatarROM for 26 devices. We are excited as it is one of our biggest update and we are upgrading to 4.2.1.

Did someone say fonts ?

Avatar Theme Creator Tool

Avatar Team is proud to present the first beta release of Theme creator tool. It is a QT based desktop application to edit themes.

Themes created using this tool are compatible with Avatar ROM and Cyanogen ROM. Similarly you can edit both Avatar Themes and Cyanogen themes.

Download the theme apk and open it using the theme creator tool. You will see a screen to edit the resources. After editing the resources, save the apk and install on the device.

What you can do with this tool ?

1. There are 1000's of resources that can be themed in Android. We change only a small set of them and if you want to theme more resources you can use this tool.

2. We make some mistakes when creating a theme. Eg: SMS time stamp color was not proper in some of our themes. You can now use this tool to fix it.

3. We cannot satify all the users with a theme. Eg: If you want to have a darker orange shade in denim theme you can now do it using this tool.

4. You can import an existing theme, change some of the resources we modified and you have a brand new theme.

Upcoming features:

1. Ability to create a new theme from scratch.

2. Import MiUi mtz theme file and convert it to theme apk which is compatible with AvatarROM and CyanogenROM.

3. Upload your new themes to our server so it can be used by other AvatarROM users.

4. Html5 based new theme creator tool which is more elegant and user friendly.

Download links

Windows - Link

Linux - Link

Mac - Link

As always we love to hear your feedbacks and comments. You might feel little lost with all the resources that are in Android world and we are on standby to help.

If you create a new theme and want to upload to our server, send us a PM and we will give access for you to upload the theme.