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Changing the statusbar color

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I am petting my Droid and telling her to hold on just a little longer. . . .


Since you are running 2.1, I am going to assume you already have the recovery from sholes.info on your phone is well. If that is the case, I really wouldn't worry too much. I've already done far worse with my phone than just loading a framework-res folder on there that is missing half the folders. My phone still works. ;)

In case anyone else is curious why this is happening, it is because the framework-res from 2.1 has several folders which the 2.0 and 2.0.1 versions do not have.


Version 2.0.1

anim
color
drawable
drawable-hdpi
drawable-land-hdpi
layout
layout-port
raw
raw-es
xml
xml-en


Version 2.1

anim
color
drawable
drawable-hdpi
drawable-land-hdpi
drawable-nodpi
layout
layout-ja
layout-port
raw
raw-de
raw-en-GB
raw-es
raw-fr
raw-it
raw-ja
raw-ko
raw-ru
raw-zh-CN
raw-zh-TW
xml
xml-en
 
I made it myself.

If you have an idea of what you want for a status bar and you feel comfortable screwing with your framework-res.apk, I can try to make you something and give you a quick how-to on putting it on the phone. I warn you now, though... I am not the best at photoshop. Changing colors and handling transparency I can do. Past that, not so sure.

Don't know if you saw my screen shots that I had in the other thread or not, but this is what I am using on my phone now... (The status bar icons were stripped from a theme pack, and I wouldn't use them without asking for permission from the creator.)

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Thanks for the gimp tip been playing around with the images a little. Also I was wondering if you would be willing to share your status bar images?


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Only some of the statusbar images are mine, and it looks like you've already gone after the same ones I did.

The notification icons are all from a theme pack called "Buuf". It is free to Download Here, and you can move them over to your folder individually from the framework-res that is included in the download, but I just wouldn't feel right posting work that isn't my own.

I hope that makes sense.
 
It finally worked for me!

Thanks Fadelight, for going through all the trouble of working with me the last couple of days on PM.

Couldn't have done it without you, and your design is sweet!

Thanks again!

:D
 
Only some of the statusbar images are mine, and it looks like you've already gone after the same ones I did.

The notification icons are all from a theme pack called "Buuf". It is free to Download Here, and you can move them over to your folder individually from the framework-res that is included in the download, but I just wouldn't feel right posting work that isn't my own.

I hope that makes sense.

Make sense man I totally understand thanks allot
 
Could some please help me make this changes? I'm a first time user of the android phone and know nothing about how to program it or make mods. Think i'm just a little lost on how to use these different tools and which ones to download to my home pc and phone.
 
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