So I found a really easy way to make our Settings app (SecSettings.apk) look like the S5 Settings app. I didn't figure this out, I'm just passing this along because I thought this was really cool and useful, @maxx35000 came up with this and I found it on his post here. You have to copy SecSettings.apk from /system/priv-app to your PC, and decompile using apktool (if you don't know how, look it up in xda, it's easy and there's plenty of tutorials). In the decompiled folder navigate to res/values and open bools.xml. Search for these lines:
You want to set settings_list and settings_tab to false, and settings_grid to true, so it'll look like this:
Save file, recompile, and push to phone. You obviously must set permissions to 644, and reboot once you've replaced the old SecSettings.apk with the new. All the usual stuff.
I've tried selecting several different settings options and everything has worked normally so far, with one exception: this mod created a fingerprints option, which force closes Settings every time I've tried to select it. My guess is this is an S5 feature not natively supported on our phone; I couldn't care less because I'll just avoid that one button, all I really wanted was for my settings to all be together on one screen. Next I'm gonna see about changing the settings color theme, it turns out you can theme the drop-down menu almost entirely from res/values/drawables, so who knows, maybe SecSettings will be that easy too. Anyway, I'm just sharing this because it's really easy and it really helped me, I hope it helps someone else too. Again I deserve no credit for this, max35000 posted this mod and I just wanted to share it here.
Code:
<bool name="settings_list">true</bool>
<bool name="settings_tab">false</bool>
<bool name="settings_grid">false</bool>
Code:
<bool name="settings_list">false</bool>
<bool name="settings_tab">false</bool>
<bool name="settings_grid">true</bool>I've tried selecting several different settings options and everything has worked normally so far, with one exception: this mod created a fingerprints option, which force closes Settings every time I've tried to select it. My guess is this is an S5 feature not natively supported on our phone; I couldn't care less because I'll just avoid that one button, all I really wanted was for my settings to all be together on one screen. Next I'm gonna see about changing the settings color theme, it turns out you can theme the drop-down menu almost entirely from res/values/drawables, so who knows, maybe SecSettings will be that easy too. Anyway, I'm just sharing this because it's really easy and it really helped me, I hope it helps someone else too. Again I deserve no credit for this, max35000 posted this mod and I just wanted to share it here.
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