Gonna try the UOT for themes.

[nerdyperdy]

http://uot.dakra.lt/

Its an online theme maker and they say its supposed to work with almost any phone. I fooled around a little with it, built a theme and now I'm waiting on it to cook. You upload your systemui.apk and system-res.apk to the kitchen, make your changed, make sure you like em, then download and flash thru recovery.

And since its using YOUR rom files, I guess there a slim chance of something breaking..idk.

I'm getting in the shower but my theme should be cooked when I get out so ill do a Nandroid backup, flash it and see what happenes.





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[nerdyperdy]

Ok..I'm out the shower, flashed and rebooted.

Guess what?? It works..lol

once you build your theme and download the .zip , reboot into recovery, clear cache and dalvik cache, mount /system AND /data then flash the zip.

I changed the battery icon, loading icons and loading screens, notification bar and a few more things. If anyone wants to try it, here's my zip.

http://db.tt/mh6YaJrS

I used the framwork-res.apk amd systemui.apk from phoenix rom 0.2 so ONLY FLASH THIS IF YOUR RUNNING PHOENIX 0.2.

I am not responsible if you have to reflash your phone.


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[jroc2389]

what did you change in the notification bar?

 

[nerdyperdy]

what did you change in the notification bar?

Transpanerncy and the colors of the notifications..nothing drastic and those didn't work..the battery mode did but nothing else for the notification bar changed.

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[jroc2389]

yea i tried it and nothing in the notification bar was changed

 

[Paul627g]

UOT Kitchen is a nice little tool for the average user looking into doing a little "do it yourself" customizing. As you have noticed not everything works as expected with the Kitchen.

Great for personal use, but as a tool to create themed ROM's for the public to download as your creations that is something I wouldn't use the Kitchen for.

Just my advice coming from someone who is well versed in theme creation/building.

Have fun

 

[firehak]

And a little advice: It isn't the theme kitchen not working 100% of the time. If you manually edit your theme, you'll see that Sprint/Samsung have named things differently. Manually change your theme and you will have a better success rate.

 

[nerdyperdy]

yea i tried it and nothing in the notification bar was changed

Did the battery icon change? If not, when you flash in recovery you have to mount /system And /data
before you clear the cache. Then flash and reboot. I reboot again after it settles.

UOT Kitchen is a nice little tool for the average user looking into doing a little "do it yourself" customizing. As you have noticed not everything works as expected with the Kitchen.

Great for personal use, but as a tool to create themed ROM's for the public to download as your creations that is something I wouldn't use the Kitchen for.

Just my advice coming from someone who is well versed in theme creation/building.

Have fun

I'm just doing it for me. I posted it cause I was bored. Lol. Was online in the wee hours of the morning, made ths, tested,uploaded..lol

And a little advice: It isn't the theme kitchen not working 100% of the time. If you manually edit your theme, you'll see that Sprint/Samsung have named things differently. Manually change your theme and you will have a better success rate.

How would I go about that?


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[Paul627g]

To manually edit your theme you need to learn how to de compile and re compile the apk's. There are plenty of guides on this available if you search around.

You use either APK TOOL and do it manually or use APK Manager and it does it for you. Then you need to learn how to read/edit/code XML which all our apk's are build from.

 

[nerdyperdy]

To manually edit your theme you need to learn how to de compile and re compile the apk's. There are plenty of guides on this available if you search around.

You use either APK TOOL and do it manually or use APK Manager and it does it for you. Then you need to learn how to read/edit/code XML which all our apk's are build from.

When you edit the xml files, what does that change?

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[Paul627g]

XML is the language in which Android is written...

If you were to attempt to extract any of the apk's contents using 7zip or WinRAR you would only be able to open and look at png's (images) like your icons, etc.. All the actual coding is compiled XML code which controls everything your device does.

Just to give you a quick example of what I'm talking about the following is the XML file that controls the battery mod/meter. It controls what at what percent level to display which image for your battery meter.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<level-list
  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/stat_sys_battery_0" android:maxLevel="4" />
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/stat_sys_battery_15" android:maxLevel="15" />
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/stat_sys_battery_28" android:maxLevel="35" />
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/stat_sys_battery_43" android:maxLevel="49" />
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/stat_sys_battery_57" android:maxLevel="60" />
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/stat_sys_battery_71" android:maxLevel="75" />
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/stat_sys_battery_85" android:maxLevel="90" />
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/stat_sys_battery_100" android:maxLevel="100" />
</level-list>

If you would like to continue a discussion like this further I would recommend starting a topic or thread in the Hacking section where its more appropriate.

 

[nerdyperdy]

yea i tried it and nothing in the notification bar was changed

Did your notification click color change? Mine changed.

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[jroc2389]

i might need to try it again but the color didnt change in the notification only the battery icon in the notification bar changed

 

[nerdyperdy]

i might need to try it again but the color didnt change in the notification only the battery icon in the notification bar changed

When you get a notification, don't click it, but hold and its should be a darker green.

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[jroc2389]

na nothing happened

 

[jroc2389]

nevermind it did