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[Guide] Creating Custom Lockscreens

Here's mine. I editted Aloysius rom and put my name at the top. I like the transparent lockscreens.

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I went through the whole process and followed everything exact, double checking everything along the way. Put the zip onto the sd card, flashed via Recovery, rebooted via Recovery, and now the lockscreen is still exactly the same. I didn't get any errors while going through the process and tried it a couple times with no success. If it helps I'm rooted with fresh 1.1, and gumbo kernel.
 
ddrees said:
I went through the whole process and followed everything exact, double checking everything along the way. Put the zip onto the sd card, flashed via Recovery, rebooted via Recovery, and now the lockscreen is still exactly the same. I didn't get any errors while going through the process and tried it a couple times with no success. If it helps I'm rooted with fresh 1.1, and gumbo kernel.
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In all likelihood you messed up the structure of the folders in the zip file you signed.

Best bet, just to verify, is to grab a known working lockscreen from the posts above, and open the zip to compare its contents & structure to your own.

If you got it wrong, it typically won't break anything when you flash, as you have noticed, you just won't see the results as expected.
 
John_Droid said:
In all likelihood you messed up the structure of the folders in the zip file you signed.

Best bet, just to verify, is to grab a known working lockscreen from the posts above, and open the zip to compare its contents & structure to your own.

If you got it wrong, it typically won't break anything when you flash, as you have noticed, you just won't see the results as expected.
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Alright I'll check that out, I'm at work right now so one I get home I'll redo the whole thing and see if that makes a difference and let yall know.
 
Just checked out the difference with the .zip files and got another users to work and noticed that inside the .zip file was a folder called "META-INF" is that why mine didn't work? I didn't see anything in the tutorial about putting that in, but I could just be ******ed lol
 
ddrees said:
Just checked out the difference with the .zip files and got another users to work and noticed that inside the .zip file was a folder called "META-INF" is that why mine didn't work? I didn't see anything in the tutorial about putting that in, but I could just be ******ed lol
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That would indicate that you did not successfully sign the zip. Did you use 'fresh' to attempt to sign? Did you run the checks (?) in the pre-kitchen to see if you got a checkmark for Java? If not, you may need to install.
 
Yea I used fresh to sign, but did not run the checks. I'll check tonight to see what happened and why it didn't sign.
 
alright completely tried it again from scratch and it worked, don't know what the hell I did but hey it worked lol. Ok now my only question is how do I change the clock to being the square and not the normal bar?
 
Not sure what you are referring to in regards to the clock being square and not normal. Could you please elaborate on that?
 
Yea I did everything right, even when I use someone else's lockscreen it still shows me that stock clock. My question was how do I change that clock to the square one that all of yall are using (second picture)
 
that's not what I'm looking for, I guess I'm not being really clear so sorry about that. What I'm looking for is how to change the clock on the lockscreen from being the normal bar (arrow pointing to on image 1) to being that square that fits inside the new lockscreens (arrow pointing to on image 2).
 
The image works fine it's just that it keeps giving me that stock "bar style" clock instead of the one that fits within the image.

Here's a screenshot:

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Hopefully these guys can help you out some. I'm currently at work and will not have time to look into this more. G'luck :)
 
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